The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Microsoft: Phi 4 vs OpenAI: GPT-4.1 ·Microsoft vs OpenAI

Microsoft: Phi 4 vs OpenAI: GPT-4.1 — head-to-head comparison

Microsoft: Phi 4 profile OpenAI: GPT-4.1 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)
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 — OpenAI
Quality
#49 of 61
36based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#236 of 316
33.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#268 of 340
$3.50
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.00 · Out $8.00
Cache hit price
#174 of 206
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−75%)
Context
#49 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Microsoft: Phi 4 scores 33 and OpenAI: GPT-4.1 scores 36 — a 3-point lead for OpenAI: GPT-4.1. They share 3 published evaluations, with Microsoft: Phi 4 ahead on 0 and OpenAI: GPT-4.1 ahead on 3.

Blended pricing is $0.09 per 1M tokens for Microsoft: Phi 4 and $3.50 for OpenAI: GPT-4.1 — Microsoft: Phi 4 is about 40.0× cheaper.

Throughput is 56 tokens per second for Microsoft: Phi 4 and 33 for OpenAI: GPT-4.1, with time to first token at 0.2s and 0.8s. Microsoft: Phi 4 accepts 16k tokens of context against 1.05M.

Microsoft: Phi 4 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); OpenAI: GPT-4.1 is proprietary. 3 tracked hosts serve one or both.

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

At a glance
MetricMicrosoft: Phi 4OpenAI: GPT-4.1
Known Good Index 33 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 36 based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.09 $3.50
Output tok/s 56 33
Context window 16k 1.05M
Providers 1 2
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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 4OpenAI: GPT-4.1
Known Good Index 33 36
Mathematics Index 39 61
Science Index 53 66
Reasoning Index 47 36
Agentic Index — 33
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 = OpenAI: GPT-4.1 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond56 / 67
MATH / AIME14 / 38
MATH Level 565 / 83

Right-hand figures read Microsoft: Phi 4 / OpenAI: GPT-4.1. Microsoft: Phi 4 leads on 0 of 3, OpenAI: GPT-4.1 on 3.

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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 4OpenAI: GPT-4.1
Text Arena 1,217 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,256 —
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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 4OpenAI: GPT-4.1
Input $/1M $0.07 $2.00
Output $/1M $0.14 $8.00
Blended $/1M $0.09 $3.50
Cache read $/1M — $0.500
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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 4OpenAI: GPT-4.1
Context window 16k 1.05M
Max output tokens 16k 33k
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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 4OpenAI: GPT-4.1
Output tokens/s 56 33
Time to first token 0.2s 0.8s
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Providers

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

3 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Microsoft: Phi 4 blendedMicrosoft: Phi 4 tok/s OpenAI: GPT-4.1 blendedOpenAI: GPT-4.1 tok/s
DeepInfra $0.09 70 — —
OpenAI · first party — — $3.50 59
Azure · first party — — $3.50 42

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

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →