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

Phi-4 8B scores 62.2 on TruthfulQA, placing it #501 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 73.6 and the leader is GPT-5.1 Max at 91.1.

Score
62.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#501
of 600
Percentile
17th
within the index
Benchmark avg
73.6
all models
Leader
91.1
GPT-5.1 Max
Gap to leader
28.9
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on TruthfulQA, with Phi-4 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.1 Max 91.1
Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning 90.3
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 90.0
GPT-5.2 Pro 90.0
GPT-5.2 89.7
Gemini 3 Pro Max 89.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 89.4
Qwen3-Max Max 89.3
GPT-5.1 89.2
GPT-5.1 Turbo 89.2

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
2 Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning Google DeepMind 200000 $19.69 87.5
3 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
4 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
7 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
8 Qwen3-Max Max Alibaba Cloud 400000 $18.53 85.9
9 GPT-5.1 OpenAI 2000000 $19.01 86.0
10 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1

What this score means

On TruthfulQA, Phi-4 8B sits at #501 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.1 Max, scores 91.1, so the gap to the top is 28.9 points. The median model in this index scores 76.3, which puts Phi-4 8B below the midpoint.

Microsoft models average 67.5 on this benchmark. Phi-4 8B is 5.3 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Microsoft model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 59.9. Phi-4 8B is 2.3 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 62.2 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 TruthfulQA. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
DeepSeek-Coder 8B DeepSeek 32768 $1.26 58.7
Llama 3.1 8B Meta AI 8192 $1.15 58.7
Seed-OSS 8B ByteDance 8192 $1.05 57.1
Llama 3 Anyscale 8B Anyscale 32768 $0.97 57.3
Phi-4 8B Microsoft 32768 $0.96 54.9
Llama 3 Baseten 7B Baseten 32768 $0.87 55.3
Pythia Base EleutherAI 16384 $0.99 55.9

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
HumanEval 57.1 531 12th
MATH-500 54.8 522 13th
AIME 2025 43.5 518 14th
LiveCodeBench 41.8 527 12th
IFEval 65.8 523 13th
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 TruthfulQA?

Phi-4 8B scores 62.2 on TruthfulQA in this index. The benchmark average is 73.6 and the top score is 91.1.

How does Phi-4 8B rank on TruthfulQA?

It ranks #501 of 600 models, in the 17th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.1 Max at 91.1.

Is Phi-4 8B good at TruthfulQA?

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 TruthfulQA score calculated?

TruthfulQA is a safety 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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