Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Phi-4 Mini

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.9

Rank #283 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Phi-4 Mini leads 22.4 to 15.2.
  • Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Phi-4 Mini specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index35.130.9
Released2024-12-062024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.075
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked543

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
SciCode—10.8%
WeirdML25.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
LMArena Coding1350—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Phi-4 Mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
TheAgentCompany11.4%—

Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1346—
DTBench63.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36—
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Phi-4 Mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
LMArena Math1352—
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-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
GPQA Diamond64.1%—
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.5%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
LMArena Expert1339—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
LMArena Non-English1342—
LMArena Chinese1373—
LMArena French1391—
LMArena German1353—
LMArena Japanese1294—
LMArena Korean1313—
LMArena Russian1351—
LMArena Spanish1363—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Phi-4 Mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1336—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Phi-4 Mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Phi-4 Mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Phi-4 Mini
LMArena Text1354—
LMArena Creative Writing1340—
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
WildBench80%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1350—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Phi-4 Mini?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (28.4 vs 28.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Phi-4 Mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.

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