Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Phi-4

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 8 categories and Phi-4 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 34.1 to 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Data Analysis: 65.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 45.2% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index37.831.2
Released2025-02-052024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked3237

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
LiveBench Coding47.1%30.7%
LMArena Coding13221231
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%47.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13241220
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%45.2%
LiveBench54.3%41.6%
Chess Puzzles—1%
DTBench52.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.42
ForecastBench57.1—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
LiveBench Math58.1%42%
LMArena Math13091246
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
LMArena Expert13051203
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
MMLU-Pro72%—
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
GPQA (HELM)50%—
MMLU—84.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Phi-4: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
LMArena Non-English13231197
LMArena Chinese13391212
LMArena French13471224
LMArena German13061222
LMArena Japanese13011158
LMArena Korean13251151
LMArena Russian13281209
LMArena Spanish13131234

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%58.4%
LMArena Instruction Following13051201
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
LMArena Longer Query13201217

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LitePhi-4
LMArena Text13301217
LMArena Creative Writing13191182
LMArena Multi-Turn13071206
LiveBench Language34.3%25.6%
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
WildBench79%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Phi-4?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Phi-4 better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Phi-4 share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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