Model comparison
o4-mini vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. o4-mini 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 instruction following, where o4-mini leads 75.2 to 51.9.
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 41.6 | 29.3 |
| Released | 2025-04-16 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 100K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4.40 | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding o4-mini leads
o4-mini: 40.9 (#127), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1368 | 1101 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 45% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 72% | — |
| GSO | 3.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 52.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 20.3% |
| CadEval | 62% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 826.17 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.72 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
o4-mini: 32.6 (#61), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 53.2% | — |
| GDPval | 25.3% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 63.9% | — |
Reasoning o4-mini leads
o4-mini: 24.6 (#162), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1351 | 1100 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 6.1% | — |
| SimpleBench | 38.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 67.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 58.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0.6% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 26% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 9.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.9% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 5% | — |
| DTBench | 77.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 30.3% |
| LMCA | 26.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 58.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.64 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 77% |
| LiveBench | — | 24% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math o4-mini leads
o4-mini: 40.8 (#89), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1389 | 1151 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 36.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 4.9% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 81.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 72% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 17.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | 97.8% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 24.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 6.3% | — |
Knowledge o4-mini leads
o4-mini: 43.6 (#91), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1343 | 1067 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.6% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 18.1% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 19.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 82% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 18.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 73.5% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 90.7% |
| MMLU | — | 75.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 58.1% |
Multimodal Not comparable
o4-mini: 40.2 (#49), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1194 | — |
| GeoBench | 64% | — |
| VPCT | 57.5% | — |
Multilingual o4-mini leads
o4-mini: 47.0 (#154), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1337 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1354 | 1061 |
| LMArena French | 1364 | 1135 |
| LMArena German | 1336 | 1080 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1308 | 966 |
| LMArena Korean | 1312 | 894 |
| LMArena Russian | 1334 | 1111 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1111 |
Instruction Following o4-mini leads
o4-mini: 75.2 (#68), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | 1087 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 47.2% |
| IFEval | 92.8% | — |
Long Context o4-mini leads
o4-mini: 45.5 (#33), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1315 | 1088 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 77.8% | — |
Writing & Preference o4-mini leads
o4-mini: 54.0 (#152), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)
| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1353 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1294 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1068 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 75% | — |
| WildBench | 85.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 12.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is o4-mini better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?
o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is o4-mini or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?
o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do o4-mini and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. o4-mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.