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Phi-4 Chat on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

Phi-4 Chat scores 68.9 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #210 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Score
68.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#210
of 600
Percentile
65th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
16.2
points

Score distribution

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
2 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
6 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
7 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
8 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On LiveCodeBench, Phi-4 Chat sits at #210 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 16.2 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Phi-4 Chat above the midpoint.

Microsoft models average 52.1 on this benchmark. Phi-4 Chat is 16.8 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Microsoft model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 70.3. Phi-4 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 68.9 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 $3.66 per million input tokens, Phi-4 Chat is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Gemini 3 Flash Mini Google DeepMind 200000 $10.71 76.0
Llama 3 Hyperbolic Chat Hyperbolic 200000 $3.64 75.1
Llama 3 Hyperbolic Instruct Hyperbolic 200000 $3.79 76.2
GLM-4.5 Chat Zhipu AI 65536 $4.53 78.3
Phi-4 Chat Microsoft 65536 $3.66 74.7
Qwen3-Coder Chat Alibaba Cloud 128000 $4.59 78.4
ERNIE 4.0 Pro Baidu 200000 $12.58 77.5

Other benchmarks for Phi-4 Chat

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 78.4 230 62th
GPQA Diamond 70.1 258 57th
SWE-bench Verified 62.2 278 54th
HumanEval 80.7 217 64th
MATH-500 74.9 330 45th
AIME 2025 67.2 309 49th
IFEval 84.0 214 64th
TruthfulQA 79.1 212 65th
HellaSwag 86.4 200 67th
MMMU 70.2 294 51th
Arena Elo 1372.7 309 49th

FAQ

What score does Phi-4 Chat get on LiveCodeBench?

Phi-4 Chat scores 68.9 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Phi-4 Chat rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #210 of 600 models, in the 65th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Phi-4 Chat good at LiveCodeBench?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the LiveCodeBench score calculated?

LiveCodeBench 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 Chat cost?

Phi-4 Chat costs $3.66 per million input tokens and $14.24 per million output tokens.

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