Model comparison

o3 vs phi-3-small 7.4B

o3 has enough public results to be ranked (#53); phi-3-small 7.4B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

o3 OpenAI

47.4

Rank #53 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

o3 and phi-3-small 7.4B specifications
o3phi-3-small 7.4B
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index47.4—
Released2025-04-16—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output100K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$8—
Results tracked631

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

o3: 47.3 (#57), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
SWE-bench Verified62.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)58.4%—
Aider Polyglot81.3%—
GSO8.8%—
WeirdML52.4%—
LMArena Coding1408—
CadEval74%—
ALE-Bench933.55—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o3: 34.3 (#42), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval30.8%—
DeepResearch Bench45.2%—
OSWorld23%—
LMArena Search1144—
METR Time Horizons65.4%—

Reasoning Not comparable

o3: 32.1 (#66), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
Epoch Capabilities Index146.88121.79
ARC-AGI-26.5%—
SimpleBench53.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67.6%—
ARC-AGI-160.8%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles38%—
EnigmaEval13.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1402—
Mystery Game Puzzles29%—
DTBench84.8%—
LMCA39.7%—
ForecastBench62.5—

Math Not comparable

o3: 48.9 (#49), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)33.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.4%—
Omni-MATH71.4%—
LMArena Math1426—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)18.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Not comparable

o3: 54.5 (#47), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
GPQA Diamond81.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam20.3%—
SimpleQA Verified49.4%—
MMLU-Pro85.9%—
Confabulations14.4%—
GPQA (HELM)75.3%—
LMArena Expert1403—

Multimodal Not comparable

o3: 40.7 (#35), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
LMArena Vision1214—
GeoBench74%—
VPCT52%—

Multilingual Not comparable

o3: 51.9 (#99), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
LMArena Non-English1402—
LMArena Chinese1438—
LMArena French1430—
LMArena German1420—
LMArena Japanese1404—
LMArena Korean1371—
LMArena Russian1407—
LMArena Spanish1395—

Instruction Following Not comparable

o3: 73.0 (#122), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
IFEval86.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1368—

Long Context Not comparable

o3: 53.2 (#6), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
Fiction.LiveBench88.9%—
CL-bench17.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1372—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

o3: 63.7 (#62), phi-3-small 7.4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko3phi-3-small 7.4B
LMArena Text1410—
LMArena Creative Writing1359—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1676—
WildBench86.1%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1405—

Frequently asked questions

Is o3 better than phi-3-small 7.4B?

o3 has enough public results to be ranked (#53); phi-3-small 7.4B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do o3 and phi-3-small 7.4B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. o3 has 63 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-small 7.4B has 1.

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