Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
1-bit Bonsai 8B
~50
Winner · 1/8 categoriesPhi-4
40
2/8 categories1-bit Bonsai 8B· Phi-4
Pick 1-bit Bonsai 8B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
1-bit Bonsai 8B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 50 to 40. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
1-bit Bonsai 8B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 50 against 31.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MATH-500, 66% to 94.6%. Phi-4 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
1-bit Bonsai 8B gives you the larger context window at 64K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.
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| Benchmark | 1-bit Bonsai 8B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 44% |
| BrowseComp | — | 35% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 34% |
| Coding | ||
| HumanEval | — | 82.6% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 55% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | — | 54% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 38% |
| Reasoning1-bit Bonsai 8B wins | ||
| MuSR | 50% | — |
| LongBench v2 | — | 30% |
| MRCRv2 | — | 33% |
| KnowledgePhi-4 wins | ||
| GPQA | 30% | 56.1% |
| MMLU | — | 84.8% |
| FrontierScience | — | 52% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | 79.8% | — |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 80.6% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 60% |
| MathematicsPhi-4 wins | ||
| MATH-500 | 66% | 94.6% |
1-bit Bonsai 8B is ahead overall, 50 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MATH-500, where the scores are 66% and 94.6%.
Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.6 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Phi-4 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.6 versus 66. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
1-bit Bonsai 8B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 50 versus 31.4. Phi-4 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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