Model comparison

Grok 4 vs phi-3-medium 14B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 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 leads 53.8 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87% for Grok 4 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 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Grok 4phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderxAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index48.129.7
Released2025-07-092024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
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Results tracked4813

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1408—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44121.23
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1409—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench60.9—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
LMArena Math1422—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond87%27.6%
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1415—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1403—
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Russian1410—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
IFEval94.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1387—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1411—
LMArena Creative Writing1397—
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1416—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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