# o3 vs Phi-3.5-mini

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for o3 and Phi-3.5-mini across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/o3-vs-phi-3-5-mini
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for o3 and Phi-3.5-mini.

## Summary

- o3 and Phi-3.5-mini do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | o3 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 45.41 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 1 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $8.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3 public-lane score: 77.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | Coming soon | 69% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3 public-lane score: 67.8 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3 public-lane score: 48.5 (Estimated · #86/181)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | Coming soon | 69% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 47.4% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 30.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 55.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | Coming soon | 47.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3 public-lane score: 87.4 (#37/128)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3 public-lane score: 48.5 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 33.333% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare o3 and Phi-3.5-mini on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

## Related Comparisons

- [o3 vs o3-pro](/compare/o3-vs-o3-pro)
- [Phi-3.5-mini vs o3-pro](/compare/o3-pro-vs-phi-3-5-mini)
- [o3 vs o3-mini](/compare/o3-vs-o3-mini)
- [Phi-3.5-mini vs o3-mini](/compare/o3-mini-vs-phi-3-5-mini)

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- [o3 profile](/models/o3)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)