Model comparison

o3-pro vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

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o3-pro OpenAI

42.9

Rank #105 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in long context, where o3-pro leads 72.2 to 33.0.
  • Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o3-pro and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
o3-proPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index42.929.3
Released2025-06-102024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output100K—
Input $ / M tokens$20—
Output $ / M tokens$80—
Results tracked1232

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Category by category

Coding o3-pro leads

o3-pro: 55.5 (#24), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Aider Polyglot84.9%—
WeirdML58.2%—
LiveBench Coding—20.3%
LMArena Coding—1101

Reasoning o3-pro leads

o3-pro: 23.8 (#171), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.1%—
ARC-AGI-159.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1100
DTBench86.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
LMCA38.5%—
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index147.42—
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Not comparable

o3-pro: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Math—17.6%
LMArena Math—1151

Knowledge Too close to call

o3-pro: 29.5 (#238), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Confabulations14.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate23.3%—
LMArena Expert—1067
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

o3-pro: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1058
LMArena Chinese—1061
LMArena French—1135
LMArena German—1080
LMArena Japanese—966
LMArena Korean—894
LMArena Russian—1111
LMArena Spanish—1111

Instruction Following Not comparable

o3-pro: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%
LMArena Instruction Following—1087

Long Context o3-pro leads

o3-pro: 72.2 (#1), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—
LMArena Longer Query—1088

Writing & Preference o3-pro leads

o3-pro: 57.1 (#133), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko3-proPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text—1110
LMArena Creative Writing—1083
Short-Story Creative Writing84.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is o3-pro better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is o3-pro or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o3-pro and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3-pro has 12 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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