Model comparison

GPT-5-Codex vs phi-3-medium 14B

GPT-5-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

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GPT-5-Codex OpenAI

37.9

Rank #192 Reported

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-5-Codex leads 42.4 to 36.8.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5-Codex and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
GPT-5-Codexphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index37.929.7
Released2025-09-152024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked313

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5-Codex leads

GPT-5-Codex: 42.4 (#103), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5-Codexphi-3-medium 14B
WeirdML54.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5-Codex: 31.0 (#72), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5-Codexphi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench44.3%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5-Codex: 30.9 (#83), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5-Codexphi-3-medium 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—121.23
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Not comparable

GPT-5-Codex: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5-Codexphi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5-Codex: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5-Codexphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond—27.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5-Codex better than phi-3-medium 14B?

GPT-5-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5-Codex or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

GPT-5-Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5-Codex and phi-3-medium 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5-Codex has 3 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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