Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Phi-4 Mini

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.9

Rank #283 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 25.3.
  • Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Phi-4 Mini specifications
Grok 4Phi-4 Mini
ProviderxAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index48.130.9
Released2025-07-092024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.075
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked483

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Phi-4 Mini
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
SciCode—10.8%
WeirdML45.7%—
LMArena Coding1408—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Phi-4 Mini: —

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

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Phi-4 Mini
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles28%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1409—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Phi-4 Mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Phi-4 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
LMArena Math1422—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Phi-4 Mini
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.5%
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1415—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Phi-4 Mini
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Phi-4 Mini
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-4 Mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Phi-4 Mini
IFEval94.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1387—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Phi-4 Mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Phi-4 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Phi-4 Mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Phi-4 Mini
LMArena Text1411—
LMArena Creative Writing1397—
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1416—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Phi-4 Mini?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Phi-4 Mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.

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