Model comparison
Grok 4.1 vs Phi-2
Grok 4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#135); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | — |
| Released | 2025-11-17 | 2023-12-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 19 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 33.4 (#246), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1214 | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 45.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 33.8 (#47), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 39% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 28.3 (#91), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1436 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 42.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 59.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 107.62 |
| HellaSwag | — | 53.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 54.7% |
Math Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 36.2 (#124), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1422 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#129), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 75.9% |
| MMLU | — | 58.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 73.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 45.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 53.6 (#64), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1464 | — |
| LMArena French | 1448 | — |
| LMArena German | 1447 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1396 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1438 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 74.0 (#106), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#96), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 62.6 (#71), Phi-2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1438 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4.1 better than Phi-2?
Grok 4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#135); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Phi-2 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.