Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.
Phi-4 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 39 versus 37. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Phi-4's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 82.6 against 19. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 82.6 to 27.
GLM-4.5-Air gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.
Pick Phi-4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.5-Air only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.
Phi-4
70.5
GLM-4.5-Air
31
Phi-4
82.6
GLM-4.5-Air
19
Phi-4
80.6
GLM-4.5-Air
63
Phi-4 is ahead overall, 39 to 37. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 82.6 and 27.
Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 31. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Phi-4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 82.6 versus 19. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Phi-4 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 63. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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