Model comparison
o1-mini vs phi-3-medium 14B
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 2 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-mini leads 34.9 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 89.2% for o1-mini and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2024-09-12 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads
o1-mini: 35.5 (#224), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
o1-mini: 24.6 (#118), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
o1-mini: 8.8 (#346), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | 121.23 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 35.4 (#186), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | 17.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1358 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 34.9 (#192), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | 27.6% |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
o1-mini: 43.6 (#182), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | — |
| LMArena French | 1293 | — |
| LMArena German | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
o1-mini: 66.7 (#206), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
o1-mini: 40.1 (#161), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
o1-mini: 48.4 (#202), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is o1-mini better than phi-3-medium 14B?
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is o1-mini or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do o1-mini and phi-3-medium 14B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.