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Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B vs Phi-4-mini
Updated November 2026
Verdict
Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 58.6 vs 15.8. On the 4 benchmarks both labs report, Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B wins 4 and Phi-4-mini wins 0. Both need about 4 GB of memory at 4-bit quantization. Neither model has a hosted API on OpenRouter, so you would run both yourself.
Pick Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B if…
- you want the strongest model overall
- you need precise instruction following
- you work with long documents
Pick Phi-4-mini if…
- you need a permissive license (MIT)
- you want the more widely used model (more quantized builds and community support)
Specifications
| Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B | Phi-4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Small LM Index | 58.6 (likely 48–67) | 15.8 (likely 15–17) |
| Lab | NVIDIA · United States | Microsoft (Phi) · United States |
| Released | 2026-10-16 | 2025-02-26 |
| Parameters | 4B (dense) | 3.8B (dense) |
| Memory at 4-bit | ~3.4 GB | ~4 GB |
| Context window | 262K tokens | 128K tokens |
| Input | text | text |
| Reasoning | Always thinks | No thinking |
| License | OpenMDW-1.1 | MIT |
| API price / 1M tokens | Self-host only | Self-host only |
| Hugging Face downloads (30 days) | 11.2K | 340.5K |
Benchmarks
Higher is better. Bold marks the winner where both labs report a score. ≈ marks the index model's estimate for a score that wasn't reported, ✓ an independent measurement and * a score measured by another lab.
| Benchmark | Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B | Phi-4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro Knowledge | ≈ 77 | 46.5✓ |
| GPQA Diamond Knowledge | 69.2 | 33.1✓ |
| Humanity's Last Exam Reasoning | 8.3 | 4.4✓ |
| AIME Math | ≈ 80 | 3.0✓ |
| LiveCodeBench Coding | ≈ 65 | 12.6✓ |
| SWE-bench Verified Coding | 50.3 | ≈ 26 |
| Terminal-Bench Agentic | 12.5 | — |
| τ²-Bench Agentic | — | 8.2✓ |
| IFBench Instruction following | 74.3 | 21.1✓ |
| MATH-500 Math | — | 69.6✓ |
| AA-LCR Long context | 63.0 | 15.3✓ |
Scores are mostly reported by each lab with its own settings, so small gaps are noise. See the methodology. Open in the interactive comparison to add more models.
Questions
Which is better, Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B or Phi-4-mini?
Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 58.6 vs 15.8. On the 4 benchmarks both labs report, Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B wins 4 and Phi-4-mini wins 0.
Which is cheaper to run?
Neither model has a hosted API on OpenRouter, so you would run both yourself. Both need about 4 GB of memory at 4-bit quantization.
Which has the longer context window?
Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B has the longer context window: 262K tokens against 128K.
Can I use Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B and Phi-4-mini commercially?
Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0 4B is released under OpenMDW-1.1 and Phi-4-mini under MIT. Apache 2.0 and MIT allow commercial use; other licenses can add conditions, so read the license before shipping a product.