Model comparison

Grok 4.5 vs phi-3-medium 14B

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #25 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.5 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4.5 leads 62.3 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 93.4% for Grok 4.5 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.5 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Grok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderxAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index55.029.7
Released2026-07-082024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K—
Max output500K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked5213

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 52.2 (#35), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.4%—
LMArena WebDev1553—
SciCode54.1%—
WeirdML46.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1474—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench1,309—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#17), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
APEX-Agents56.2%—
τ²-bench Banking47.9%—
PostTrainBench23.4%—
GBAEval65.4%—
GDP.pdf14%—
LMArena Search1213—
Vending-Bench 23,887—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 56.1 (#25), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index153.92121.23
ARC-AGI-252.6%—
SimpleBench70%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)79.9%—
ARC-AGI-187.2%—
CritPt15.4%—
Chess Puzzles36%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1462—
DTBench96.5%—
LMCA45.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench74.4%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 60.9 (#35), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1459—
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#24), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond93.4%27.6%
SimpleQA Verified48.3%—
LMArena Expert1466—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 37.6 (#72), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1288—
Blueprint-Bench 227.3%—
Furniture Assembly22.5%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 54.4 (#42), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1440—
LMArena Chinese1496—
LMArena French1456—
LMArena German1446—
LMArena Japanese1428—
LMArena Korean1404—
LMArena Russian1448—
LMArena Spanish1450—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 76.0 (#48), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1446—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#56), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1463—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 65.8 (#42), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1448—
LMArena Creative Writing1442—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LMArena Multi-Turn1456—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.5 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4.5 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Grok 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.5 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.5 has 52 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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