Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Phi-4 Mini

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.9

Rank #283 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 Mini in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 38.5 to 28.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 3.3% for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and 23.5% for Phi-4 Mini.
  • Phi-4 Mini is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.40 for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index37.030.9
Released2025-06-172024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.30
Results tracked333

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
SciCode—10.8%
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1373—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1377—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.94—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
Omni-MATH48%—
LMArena Math1373—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%23.5%
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—
LMArena Expert1373—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
LMArena Non-English1369—
LMArena Chinese1404—
LMArena French1388—
LMArena German1389—
LMArena Japanese1359—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1396—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135), Phi-4 Mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi-4 Mini
LMArena Text1379—
LMArena Creative Writing1367—
WildBench81.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1366—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Phi-4 Mini?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Phi-4 Mini?

Phi-4 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite lists at $0.10 and $0.40.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Phi-4 Mini share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.

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