Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.5 leads with 30.3% higher average benchmark score. Overall, GPT-4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4.5 was developed as an intermediate advancement between GPT-4 and GPT-5, designed to incorporate incremental improvements in reasoning, factuality, and instruction-following. Built to bridge generational capabilities while maintaining compatibility with existing applications, it represents a refinement of the GPT-4 architecture with enhanced performance characteristics.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 Vision was developed as a multimodal variant of Phi-3.5, designed to understand and reason about both images and text. Built to extend the Phi family's efficiency into vision-language tasks, it enables compact multimodal AI for practical applications.
6 months newer

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Microsoft
2024-08-23

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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OpenAI

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GPT-4.5

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