Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.0), 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 (May 2024) scores higher in 5 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 34.1.
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 33.0 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 42 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1130 |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1127 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1173 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1108 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1094 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1108 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1110 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1101 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1042 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 954 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1145 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1095 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1113 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1120 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1138 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1107 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1088 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.