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Phi-3.5 Chat on HumanEval: score, rank and what it means

Phi-3.5 Chat scores 71.0 on HumanEval, placing it #389 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
71.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#389
of 600
Percentile
35th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
25.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HumanEval, with Phi-3.5 Chat highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 96.8
Gemini 3 Pro Pro 95.0
o4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 93.8
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
GPT-5.2 Max 93.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 93.4
Grok 4 Max 93.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 93.2
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 92.9

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Gemini 3 Pro Pro Google DeepMind 200000 $19.80 87.3
3 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
4 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
5 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
8 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
9 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
10 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3

What this score means

On HumanEval, Phi-3.5 Chat sits at #389 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 25.8 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Phi-3.5 Chat below the midpoint.

Microsoft models average 66.6 on this benchmark. Phi-3.5 Chat is 4.4 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Microsoft model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 72.4. Phi-3.5 Chat is 1.4 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 71.0 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $2.64 per million input tokens, Phi-3.5 Chat is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HumanEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Command A Nano Cohere 8192 $5.90 66.3
Reka Flash Mini Reka AI 16384 $5.77 65.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro Nano Google DeepMind 32768 $7.28 69.2
Claude Haiku 4.5 Nano Anthropic 8192 $6.47 68.7
Phi-3.5 Chat Microsoft 16384 $2.64 69.0
Sonar Mini Perplexity 65536 $6.52 67.9
OLMo 2 Base Allen Institute for AI 65536 $2.39 67.4

Other benchmarks for Phi-3.5 Chat

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 74.4 345 43th
GPQA Diamond 64.9 362 40th
SWE-bench Verified 56.6 372 38th
MATH-500 69.0 388 35th
AIME 2025 64.6 346 42th
LiveCodeBench 62.6 340 43th
IFEval 79.2 352 41th
TruthfulQA 72.4 377 37th
HellaSwag 80.9 373 38th
MMMU 63.7 393 35th
Arena Elo 1338.0 380 37th

FAQ

What score does Phi-3.5 Chat get on HumanEval?

Phi-3.5 Chat scores 71.0 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does Phi-3.5 Chat rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #389 of 600 models, in the 35th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is Phi-3.5 Chat good at HumanEval?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the HumanEval score calculated?

HumanEval is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Phi-3.5 Chat cost?

Phi-3.5 Chat costs $2.64 per million input tokens and $12.13 per million output tokens.

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