Microsoft: Phi 4

Microsoft's Phi-4, a 14-billion parameter model, demonstrates a strong overall performance profile, particularly excelling in cost-efficiency and reliability. It typically performs among the fastest models, ranking in the 61st percentile for speed across five benchmarks. Consistently offering among the most competitive pricing, Phi-4 achieves an 85th percentile ranking for cost. The model exhibits exceptional reliability, boasting a 100% success rate across all benchmarks, indicating minimal technical failures and consistent provision of usable responses. In terms of specific benchmark performance, Phi-4 shows a notable strength in ethical reasoning, achieving a perfect 100% accuracy in the Ethics (Baseline) benchmark, making it the most accurate model at its price point and among models of similar speed. It also performs well in acknowledging uncertainty, with a 96.0% accuracy in the Hallucinations (Baseline) test, effectively identifying fictional concepts. General knowledge is solid at 96.8% accuracy. However, the model shows a weakness in complex reasoning tasks, scoring 50.0% accuracy in the Reasoning (Baseline) benchmark, placing it in the lower 34th percentile. Email classification also presents an area for improvement, with 94.0% accuracy, ranking in the 30th percentile. Its key strengths lie in its ethical understanding, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, while complex reasoning and specific classification tasks represent areas for further development.