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Phi-4 8B on HumanEval: score, rank and what it means

Phi-4 8B scores 57.1 on HumanEval, placing it #531 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Score
57.1
0–100 scale
Rank
#531
of 600
Percentile
12th
within the index
Benchmark avg
74.0
all models
Leader
96.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
39.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HumanEval, with Phi-4 8B 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-4 8B sits at #531 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 39.7 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Phi-4 8B below the midpoint.

Microsoft models average 66.6 on this benchmark. Phi-4 8B is 9.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Microsoft model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 56.7. Phi-4 8B is 0.4 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 57.1 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 $0.96 per million input tokens, Phi-4 8B 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
GLM-4.6 1.5B Zhipu AI 4096 $0.92 54.7
Mixtral Turbo 8B Together AI 4096 $0.75 54.1
Llama 3.3 1.5B Meta AI 4096 $0.61 52.2
Llama 3 DeepInfra 7B DeepInfra 16384 $0.95 55.6
Phi-4 8B Microsoft 32768 $0.96 54.9
Mixtral 7B Mistral AI 16384 $0.70 54.1
GLM-4.5 1.5B Zhipu AI 16384 $0.65 53.3

Other benchmarks for Phi-4 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 61.9 504 16th
GPQA Diamond 53.2 489 19th
SWE-bench Verified 39.9 523 13th
MATH-500 54.8 522 13th
AIME 2025 43.5 518 14th
LiveCodeBench 41.8 527 12th
IFEval 65.8 523 13th
TruthfulQA 62.2 501 17th
HellaSwag 70.9 523 13th
MMMU 52.5 524 13th
Arena Elo 1256.7 480 20th

FAQ

What score does Phi-4 8B get on HumanEval?

Phi-4 8B scores 57.1 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.

How does Phi-4 8B rank on HumanEval?

It ranks #531 of 600 models, in the 12th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.

Is Phi-4 8B 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-4 8B cost?

Phi-4 8B costs $0.96 per million input tokens and $5.09 per million output tokens.

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