Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads 27.6 to 14.2.
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 29.3 |
| Released | 2024-10-03 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 21 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1101 |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 20.3% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1209 | 1100 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.9% |
| DTBench | 50% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 30.3% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 58.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 77% |
| LiveBench | — | 24% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1207 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1185 | 1067 |
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 90.7% |
| MMLU | — | 75.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 58.1% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1044 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1215 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1231 | 1061 |
| LMArena French | 1234 | 1135 |
| LMArena German | 1206 | 1080 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | 966 |
| LMArena Korean | 1140 | 894 |
| LMArena Russian | 1236 | 1111 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1212 | 1111 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1087 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 47.2% |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1088 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1226 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1218 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1185 | 1068 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 12.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.