# GPT-5.1 vs Phi-3.5-mini

> GPT-5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#53); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-1-vs-phi-3-5-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-5.1 leads 46.4 to 34.6.
- Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 49.0 | 36.9 |
| Rank | 53 | — |
| Context | 400K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66)
- Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 68% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 66% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1395 | — |
| SciCode | 43.3% | — |
| GSO | 13.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 60.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 72.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.5% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,192 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 47.6% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1199 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 1,473 | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 17.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 72.8% | — |
| CritPt | 4.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 32% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 11.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 95.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1457 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| DTBench | 90.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 72.1% | — |
| LMCA | 43.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 149.64 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 78.8% | — |
| PIQA | — | 81% |

## Math

- GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 94.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1447 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 31% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 12.5% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.2% |

## Knowledge

- GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.6% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 23.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 48% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 57.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1470 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 78% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1250 | — |
| VPCT | 58.7% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1403 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | — |
| LMArena French | 1450 | — |
| LMArena German | 1438 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1453 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1401 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1435 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 93.3% | — |
| IFEval | 93.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1443 | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | 23.7% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 17.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1447 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1443 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1427 | — |
| WildBench | 86.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1450 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 80.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-5.1 better than Phi-3.5-mini?

GPT-5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#53); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is GPT-5.1 or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.