# GPT-5.4 vs phi-3-medium 14B

> GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-4-vs-phi-3-medium-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.4 leads 65.3 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 93.3% for GPT-5.4 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 59.4 | 29.7 |
| Rank | 16 | 306 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.9% | — |
| DeepSWE | 51.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1465 | — |
| SciCode | 56.6% | — |
| GSO | 31.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 77.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1497 | — |
| MirrorCode | 15.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,607 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.85 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 81.8% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 52.4% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 39.4% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 35.1% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 19% | — |
| GBAEval | 45.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1197 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 74.3% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,144 | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.81 | 121.23 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 74% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 63.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 91.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 93.7% | — |
| CritPt | 23.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 44% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 16% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 80% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 25.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1485 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 37% | — |
| DTBench | 94.4% | — |
| LMCA | 52% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| ForecastBench | 59.5 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |

## Math

- GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 78.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 49% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 83.1% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 97.8% | — |
| ProofBench | 56% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1488 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 47.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 27.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.3% | 27.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 36.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 45.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1507 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1303 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 27.1% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 37.5% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1471 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1465 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1519 | — |
| LMArena French | 1493 | — |
| LMArena German | 1472 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1485 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1448 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1480 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1469 | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | 27.9% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 21.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1473 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1469 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1439 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1840 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1272 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1482 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-5.4 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-5.4 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.