# GPT-5.5 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

> GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-5-vs-phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 14.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 54% for GPT-5.5 and 0% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct.
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 63.4 | 27.9 |
| Rank | 9 | 328 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $5 | — |
| Output $/M | $30 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1494 | 1093 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.6% | — |
| DeepSWE | 67% | — |
| FrontierCode | 43% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1513 | — |
| SciCode | 56.1% | — |
| GSO | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 84.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| MirrorCode | 10% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,943 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 84.7% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 55.1% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 13% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 6.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 44.6% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 54% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 27.2% | — |
| ExploitBench | 47.4% | — |
| GBAEval | 53.2% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 26% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1242 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 7,524 | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 54% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1489 | 1072 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 85% | — |
| SimpleBench | 69% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 96.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 95% | — |
| CritPt | 27.1% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 34.3% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 56% | — |
| DTBench | 96% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| LMCA | 54.3% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 88.1% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.1 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.6 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |

## Math

- GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1486 | 1111 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 85.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 72.5% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 94.3% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 50% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 51.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1508 | 1045 |
| GPQA Diamond | 94% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 63% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1297 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 36.2% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 44.2% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1486 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1467 | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1533 | 1021 |
| LMArena French | 1486 | 1076 |
| LMArena German | 1480 | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1498 | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | 1460 | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | 1473 | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1468 | 1085 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1479 | 1053 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |

## Long Context

- GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1484 | 1044 |
| CL-bench Life | 22.2% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1472 | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1455 | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1476 | 1018 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1844 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1315 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-5.5 better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-5.5 or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.