Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 27.6.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index33.227.9
Released2024-05-142024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
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Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4235

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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 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding12611093
HumanEval+75.6%59.1%
MBPP+67.5%54.2%
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12571072
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
DTBench53.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
PIQA87.5%—
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math12691111
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LiveBench Math—15.7%
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert12331045
MMLU77.9%68.8%
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
BoolQ85.8%—
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k 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 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12781021
LMArena Chinese12951021
LMArena French12581076
LMArena German12621044
LMArena Japanese1252935
LMArena Korean1221905
LMArena Russian12881022
LMArena Spanish12431085

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12581053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12841044

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text12871073
LMArena Creative Writing12851037
LMArena Multi-Turn12531018
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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