Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Pro vs Phi-4

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Pro Google

39.1

Rank #173 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Phi-4 in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Pro leads 39.7 to 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 63.5% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 30.7% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Pro and Phi-4 specifications
Gemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index39.131.2
Released2025-02-052024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked1437

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
LiveBench Coding63.5%30.7%
Aider Polyglot35.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LMArena Coding—1231
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
LiveBench Reasoning60.1%47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis68%45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.06130.42
LiveBench65.1%41.6%
Chess Puzzles—1%
EnigmaEval0.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1220

Math Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
LiveBench Math71%42%
MATH Level 583.5%64.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LMArena Math—1246

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
GPQA Diamond65.7%56.1%
Confabulations18.4%29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
LMArena Expert—1203
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
LMArena Non-English—1197
LMArena Chinese—1212
LMArena French—1224
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Russian—1209
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
LiveBench Instruction Following83.4%58.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1201

Long Context Phi-4 leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
Fiction.LiveBench41.7%—
LMArena Longer Query—1217

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Pro leads

Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 ProPhi-4
LiveBench Language44.9%25.6%
LMArena Text—1217
LMArena Creative Writing—1182
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1206

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than Phi-4?

Gemini 2.0 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or Phi-4 better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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