Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct Microsoft

29.7

Rank #305 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct in 2 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 27.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 55.1% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 40.6% for Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct.
  • Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index33.229.7
Released2024-05-142024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4219

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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 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%29.6%
LMArena Coding12611039
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%40.6%
WeirdML24.9%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12571028
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Math12691089
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Expert1233984
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12781000
LMArena Chinese12951016
LMArena French12581039
LMArena German12621006
LMArena Japanese1252899
LMArena Korean1221856
LMArena Russian12881004
LMArena Spanish12431059

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12581023
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1284996

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Text12871050
LMArena Creative Writing12851024
LMArena Multi-Turn1253989
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.

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