# o4-mini vs Phi-3.5-mini

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for o4-mini and Phi-3.5-mini across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/o4-mini-vs-phi-3-5-mini
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick o4-mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-3.5-mini only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- o4-mini leads overall 58 to 51.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 77.6% and 30.4%.
- o4-mini also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | o4-mini | Phi-3.5-mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.10 / $4.40 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 97.3% | 62.8% | o4-mini |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DROP | 77.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BBH | Coming soon | 69% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 90% | 69% | o4-mini |
| GPQA | 77.6% | 30.4% | o4-mini |
| SimpleQA | 20.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 47.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 55.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 93.7% | 47.9% | o4-mini |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 97.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, o4-mini or Phi-3.5-mini?

o4-mini is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does o4-mini cover on BenchLM?

o4-mini currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Phi-3.5-mini cover on BenchLM?

Phi-3.5-mini currently has 8 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Phi-3.5-mini vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-phi-3-5-mini)

## Explore More

- [o4-mini profile](/models/o4-mini)
- [Phi-3.5-mini profile](/models/phi-3-5-mini)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
- [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder)
- [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector)
- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)