Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Phi-4

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 8 categories and Phi-4 in 1 category; 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 40.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 56.1% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi-4 specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index33.231.2
Released2024-05-142024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked4237

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%45.5%
LMArena Coding12611231
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%55.4%
WeirdML24.9%—
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
BALROG14.6%11.6%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts12571220
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36130.42
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
DTBench53.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
ForecastBench53.9—
LiveBench—41.6%
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%13.8%
LMArena Math12691246
MATH Level 561.9%64.9%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LiveBench Math—42%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
GPQA Diamond47.3%56.1%
LMArena Expert12331203
MMLU77.9%84.8%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Phi-4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Non-English12781197
LMArena Chinese12951212
LMArena French12581224
LMArena German12621222
LMArena Japanese12521158
LMArena Korean12211151
LMArena Russian12881209
LMArena Spanish12431234

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Instruction Following12581201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Longer Query12841217

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Text12871217
LMArena Creative Writing12851182
LMArena Multi-Turn12531206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Phi-4?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Phi-4 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 34.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi-4 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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