Model comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Phi-3.5-mini
Gemini 2.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#162); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
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- Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 39.0 | 36.4 |
| Released | 2025-04-17 | 2024-08-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 54 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash leads
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.5 (#210), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 28.7% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 41.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1424 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.5% |
| ALE-Bench | 661.88 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.6 (#67), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 17.1% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 56.2% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 41.1% | — |
| BALROG | 33.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 548.84 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.2 (#271), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 2.5% | — |
| SimpleBench | 41.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 56.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 33.3% | — |
| CritPt | 1.1% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 2.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1422 | — |
| DTBench | 76.5% | — |
| LMCA | 27.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 143.04 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.6 | — |
| PIQA | — | 81% |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 38.1 (#87), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 38.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1415 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.2% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.1 (#162), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last Exam | 12.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 63.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 16.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1426 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 78% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.2 (#31), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1254 | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
| VPCT | 46.2% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 36.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.5 (#83), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1450 | — |
| LMArena French | 1433 | — |
| LMArena German | 1419 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1403 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1385 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1415 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1421 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.9 (#50), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 89.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1405 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#16), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 77.8% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1419 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 2.5 Flash: 54.0 (#153), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1400 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1137 | — |
| WildBench | 81.7% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1408 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Phi-3.5-mini?
Gemini 2.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#162); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Phi-3.5-mini share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.