Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 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 63.7 to 27.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Math: 90.2% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 15.7% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index45.027.9
Released2025-03-252024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7835

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Coding85.9%15.5%
LMArena Coding14521093
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 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 (#99), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Chess Puzzles20%0%
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%26.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551072
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%34.7%
LiveBench82.3%22.4%
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench82.4%—
LMCA34.8%—
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32—
ForecastBench61.3—
HellaSwag—76.7%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Math90.2%15.7%
LMArena Math14501111
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
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: 56.0 (#46), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert14521045
GPQA Diamond85.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

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

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English14511021
LMArena Chinese15071021
LMArena French14721076
LMArena German14871044
LMArena Japanese1461935
LMArena Korean1434905
LMArena Russian14611022
LMArena Spanish14731085

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%39.1%
LMArena Instruction Following14371053
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14491044
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text14581073
LMArena Creative Writing14541037
LMArena Multi-Turn14531018
LiveBench Language67.8%9.2%
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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