Model comparison

o1 vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. o1 scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o1 leads 55.6 to 31.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 91.6% for o1 and 15.9% for Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct.
  • Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o1 and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
o1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index40.929.3
Released2024-09-122024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output100K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$60—
Results tracked5232

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

o1: 46.1 (#70), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Coding69.7%20.3%
LMArena Coding13671101
Aider Polyglot61.7%—
WeirdML47.6%—
CadEval56%—
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+80.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o1: 24.6 (#117), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons51.1%—

Reasoning o1 leads

o1: 27.9 (#111), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Reasoning91.6%15.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13711100
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%30.3%
LiveBench75.7%24%
SimpleBench41.7%—
ARC-AGI-130.7%—
Chess Puzzles15%—
EnigmaEval5.7%—
DTBench74.7%—
LMCA22.3%—
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index141.91—
HellaSwag—77%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math o1 leads

o1: 36.1 (#175), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Math80.3%17.6%
LMArena Math13881151
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)14.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%—
MATH Level 594.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)9.3%—

Knowledge o1 leads

o1: 41.5 (#110), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Expert13611067
GPQA Diamond76.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified41.1%—
Confabulations11.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

o1: 34.2 (#93), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Vision1168—
GeoBench80%—
VPCT37%—
SpatialViz-Bench41.4%—

Multilingual o1 leads

o1: 48.6 (#142), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English13581058
LMArena Chinese13941061
LMArena French13441135
LMArena German13371080
LMArena Japanese1346966
LMArena Korean1396894
LMArena Russian13561111
LMArena Spanish13451111

Instruction Following o1 leads

o1: 74.8 (#86), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%47.2%
LMArena Instruction Following13671087

Long Context o1 leads

o1: 50.3 (#9), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13781088
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference o1 leads

o1: 55.6 (#144), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko1Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text13661110
LMArena Creative Writing13481083
LMArena Multi-Turn13691068
LiveBench Language65.4%12.9%
Short-Story Creative Writing70.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o1 better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is o1 or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o1 and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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