Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Phi-2

GPT-5 has enough public results to be ranked (#37); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #37 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Phi-2 specifications
GPT-5Phi-2
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index50.9—
Released2025-08-072023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6911

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5: 50.7 (#39), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Phi-2
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1417—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
LMArena Coding1436—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.0 (#53), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Phi-2
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5: 38.3 (#55), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Phi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index150107.62
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1415—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.7%—
LMCA40%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
ForecastBench61.4—
HellaSwag—53.6%
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

GPT-5: 54.6 (#36), Phi-2: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5: 56.5 (#37), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Phi-2
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
LMArena Expert1420—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.1 (#12), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Phi-2
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5: 51.5 (#105), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Phi-2
LMArena Non-English1397—
LMArena Chinese1423—
LMArena French1409—
LMArena German1415—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1361—
LMArena Russian1406—
LMArena Spanish1398—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5: 74.0 (#107), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Phi-2
IFEval87.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1388—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Phi-2
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1399—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5: 63.5 (#63), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Phi-2
LMArena Text1406—
LMArena Creative Writing1365—
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1426—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Phi-2?

GPT-5 has enough public results to be ranked (#37); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Phi-2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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