Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Phi-4

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 5 categories and Phi-4 in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 52.4 to 40.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Confabulations: 13.5% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 29.4% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Phi-4 specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index32.131.2
Released2024-02-152024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked4537

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%45.5%
LMArena Coding12941231
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%55.4%
WeirdML22.2%—
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
CadEval34%—
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
BALROG21%11.6%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—

Reasoning Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts12961220
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73130.42
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
DTBench59%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%13.8%
LMArena Math13151246
MATH Level 570.4%64.9%
Omni-MATH36.4%—
LiveBench Math—42%

Knowledge Phi-4 leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
GPQA Diamond57.2%56.1%
Confabulations13.5%29.4%
LMArena Expert12791203
MMLU86.9%84.8%
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Phi-4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Non-English13121197
LMArena Chinese13311212
LMArena French13021224
LMArena German12861222
LMArena Japanese12921158
LMArena Korean12981151
LMArena Russian13201209
LMArena Spanish13111234

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Instruction Following12971201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%
IFEval83.7%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Longer Query13081217

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Phi-4
LMArena Text13191217
LMArena Creative Writing13331182
LMArena Multi-Turn12961206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
WildBench81.3%—
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

They score almost the same on coding (34.2 vs 34.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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