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 18. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 82.6 to 28.
MiniMax M1 80k gives you the larger context window at 80K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.
Pick Phi-4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M1 80k only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 80K context window.
Phi-4
70.5
MiniMax M1 80k
31.3
Phi-4
82.6
MiniMax M1 80k
18
Phi-4
80.6
MiniMax M1 80k
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 28.
Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 31.3. 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 18. 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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