The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Microsoft: Phi 4 vs o1-mini ·Microsoft vs OpenAI

Microsoft: Phi 4 vs o1-mini — head-to-head comparison

Microsoft: Phi 4 profile o1-mini profile All comparisons
Microsoft: Phi 4 — Microsoft
Quality
#50 of 61
33based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#142 of 316
56.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#40 of 340
$0.09
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.07 · Out $0.14
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
#334 of 345
16k
tokens (~25 pages)
o1-mini — OpenAI
Quality
#39 of 61
56based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Microsoft: Phi 4 scores 33 and o1-mini scores 56 — a 23-point lead for o1-mini. They share 10 published evaluations, with Microsoft: Phi 4 ahead on 0 and o1-mini ahead on 10.

Published pricing is tracked for Microsoft: Phi 4 only, at $0.09 per 1M tokens blended.

Microsoft: Phi 4 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); o1-mini is proprietary. 1 tracked host serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4o1-mini
Known Good Index 33 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 56 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.09
Output tok/s 56
Context window 16k
Providers 1 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4o1-mini
Known Good Index 33 56
Mathematics Index 39 69
Science Index 53 60
Reasoning Index 47 66
Openness Index 60 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Microsoft: Phi 4 · marker = o1-mini · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0), LiveBench (Apache-2.0)

GPQA Diamond56 / 62
MATH / AIME14 / 47
LiveBench42 / 58
LiveBench Coding31 / 48
LiveBench Data Analysis45 / 58
LiveBench Instruction Following58 / 65
LiveBench Language26 / 41
LiveBench Mathematics42 / 62
LiveBench Reasoning48 / 72
MATH Level 565 / 89

Right-hand figures read Microsoft: Phi 4 / o1-mini. Microsoft: Phi 4 leads on 0 of 10, o1-mini on 10.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4o1-mini
Text Arena 1,217 1,317
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,256 1,337
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4o1-mini
Input $/1M $0.07
Output $/1M $0.14
Blended $/1M $0.09
Cache read $/1M
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4o1-mini
Context window 16k
Max output tokens 16k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4o1-mini
Output tokens/s 56
Time to first token 0.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

1 host
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Microsoft: Phi 4 blendedMicrosoft: Phi 4 tok/s o1-mini blendedo1-mini tok/s
DeepInfra $0.09 70

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →