# GPT-4 Turbo vs phi-3-medium 14B

> GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-turbo-vs-phi-3-medium-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where phi-3-medium 14B leads 25.2 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 46.7% for GPT-4 Turbo and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 30.3 | 29.1 |
| Rank | 281 | 306 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $10 | — |
| Output $/M | $30 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-4 Turbo: 33.4 (#247)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | 48.7% |
| WeirdML | 18% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4 Turbo: —
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4 Turbo: 14.9 (#311)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | 121.18 |
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |

## Math

- GPT-4 Turbo: 8.6 (#316)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | 17.6% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1272 | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#263)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | 27.6% |
| MMLU | 81.3% | 78% |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4 Turbo: 30.0 (#104)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4 Turbo: 40.7 (#211)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | — |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4 Turbo: 66.0 (#211)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1250 | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#200)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4 Turbo: 47.9 (#201)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4 Turbo better than phi-3-medium 14B?

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-4 Turbo or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and phi-3-medium 14B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.