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phi-4 benchmarks, ranks and price
Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place phi-4, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.
Read Oct 1, 2026
#72of 85
on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 28 across 2 leaderboards.
Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.
By leaderboard
Where each leaderboard places phi-4
LiveBench
Not measured by LiveBench.
Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.
LMArena
#73of 79
Score 1256. Best run: phi-4.
Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.
Berkeley BFCL
#28of 37
Score 28.79%. Best run: Phi-4 (Prompt).
Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.
Price and context
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No gateway lists it.
Nearby
The models either side of phi-4
- #69o3 Mini High30
- #70llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct30
- #71Mistral Large 3 251228
- #72phi-428
- #73Gemma 3 27B27
- #74Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 250726
- #75Gemma 3 12B25
Questions about phi-4
How good is phi-4?
phi-4 ranks #72 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 28 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is phi-4 better than Mistral Large 3 2512?
Not on the consensus: Mistral Large 3 2512 scores 28 to phi-4's 28. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is phi-4 better than Gemma 3 27B?
On the consensus, yes: 28 to 27.
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