Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 47.4 to 25.9.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index35.131.3
Released2024-12-06—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked5415

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Category by category

Coding Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.8 (#279)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Coding13501093
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
WeirdML25.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
TheAgentCompany11.4%—

Reasoning Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 20.8 (#231)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Hard Prompts13461087
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
DTBench63.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36—
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 33.0 (#208)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Math13521152
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 28.6 (#244)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Expert13391051
GPQA Diamond64.1%—
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 25.9 (#282)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Non-English13421013
LMArena Chinese13731033
LMArena German13531031
LMArena Japanese1294954
LMArena Korean1313880
LMArena Russian13511019
LMArena French1391—
LMArena Spanish1363—

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 54.1 (#282)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Instruction Following13361058
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.7 (#277)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Longer Query13441042
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 29.6 (#294)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Text13541080
LMArena Creative Writing13401045
LMArena Multi-Turn13501049
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
WildBench80%—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 better for coding?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.8 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has 15.

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