Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

44.9

Rank #67 Confirmed

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

32.4

Rank #246 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 63.9 to 34.3.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index44.932.4
Released2025-03-25—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7817

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.8 (#86), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.3 (#263)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding14521130
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.1 (#81), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#85), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 20.8 (#214)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14551127
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 31.9 (#191), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.9 (#202)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Math14501173
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
MATH Level 595.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.8 (#41), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 29.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert14521108
GPQA Diamond85.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 44.5 (#16), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.5 (#30), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.8 (#258)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English14521094
LMArena Chinese15071108
LMArena French14731109
LMArena German14871101
LMArena Japanese14621042
LMArena Korean1435954
LMArena Russian14601145
LMArena Spanish14731095

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.2 (#71), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.8 (#263)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14361114
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.7 (#5), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.9 (#250)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14491120
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.9 (#60), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.3 (#267)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text14581138
LMArena Creative Writing14531106
LMArena Multi-Turn14531088
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.8 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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