Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-3 mini vs Phi-4

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.2

Rank #141 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 7 categories and Phi-4 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok-3 mini leads 42.1 to 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 77.8% for Grok-3 mini and 13.8% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-3 miniPhi-4
ProviderxAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index41.231.2
Released2025-04-092024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked3537

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Category by category

Coding Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniPhi-4
LMArena Coding13791231
Aider Polyglot49.3%—
WeirdML42.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok-3 mini: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Phi-4 leads

Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts13751220
Epoch Capabilities Index140.35130.42
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
ARC-AGI-116.5%—
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniPhi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%13.8%
LMArena Math13861246
MATH Level 590.9%64.9%
Omni-MATH31.8%—
LiveBench Math—42%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—

Knowledge Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniPhi-4
GPQA Diamond76.3%56.1%
Confabulations10.8%29.4%
LMArena Expert13951203
MMLU-Pro79.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
GPQA (HELM)67.5%—
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniPhi-4
LMArena Non-English13521197
LMArena Chinese13871212
LMArena French13571224
LMArena German13491222
LMArena Japanese13421158
LMArena Korean13351151
LMArena Russian13531209
LMArena Spanish13811234

Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following13571201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%
IFEval95.1%—

Long Context Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query13721217
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniPhi-4
LMArena Text13701217
LMArena Creative Writing13421182
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%62.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn13551206
WildBench65.1%—
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-3 mini better than Phi-4?

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-3 mini or Phi-4 better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Phi-4 share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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