Model comparison

Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Phi-4

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.3

Rank #332 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-4 in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi-4 leads 32.6 to 15.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.2% for Gemini 1.0 Pro and 64.9% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Phi-4 specifications
Gemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index27.331.2
Released2023-12-132024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked2437

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Category by category

Coding Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 32.2 (#275), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
LMArena Coding11081231
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%
HumanEval+55.5%—
MBPP+61.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 17.1 (#296), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts11091220
Epoch Capabilities Index117.04130.42
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
DTBench45.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 9.3 (#321), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%13.8%
LMArena Math11321246
MATH Level 511.2%64.9%
LiveBench Math—42%

Knowledge Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.6 (#291), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
GPQA Diamond34%56.1%
LMArena Expert10591203
MMLU70%84.8%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%

Multilingual Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.4 (#252), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
LMArena Non-English11381197
LMArena Chinese11241212
LMArena French11451224
LMArena German11251222
LMArena Japanese10231158
LMArena Russian11861209
LMArena Spanish11191234
LMArena Korean—1151

Instruction Following Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.6 (#267), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following11141201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#249), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query11321217

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.0 (#264), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProPhi-4
LMArena Text11491217
LMArena Creative Writing11311182
LMArena Multi-Turn11391206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than Phi-4?

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro or Phi-4 better for coding?

Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.0 Pro and Phi-4 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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