# Grok 4.1 vs Phi-2

> Grok 4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#134); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-4-1-vs-phi-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | — |
| Rank | 134 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1214 | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 45.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 39% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1435 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 42.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 59.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 107.94 |
| HellaSwag | — | 53.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 54.7% |

## Math

- Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1422 | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 75.9% |
| MMLU | — | 58.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 73.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 45.2% |

## Multilingual

- Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | — |
| LMArena French | 1448 | — |
| LMArena German | 1446 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1397 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1438 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1437 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 4.1 better than Phi-2?

Grok 4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#134); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Phi-2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.