Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Phi-4 Mini

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Phi-4 Mini costs 26× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.9

Rank #283 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Phi-4 Mini in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 25.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 42.8% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 10.8% for Phi-4 Mini.
  • Phi-4 Mini is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro 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 Pro and Phi-4 Mini specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index45.030.9
Released2025-03-252024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.30
Results tracked783

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
SciCode42.8%10.8%
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
LMArena Coding1452—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Phi-4 Mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
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-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
CritPt2%0%
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1455—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Phi-4 Mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
LMArena Math1450—
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-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%23.5%
GPQA Diamond85.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—
LMArena Expert1452—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Phi-4 Mini: —

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

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Non-English1451—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1472—
LMArena German1487—
LMArena Japanese1461—
LMArena Korean1434—
LMArena Russian1461—
LMArena Spanish1473—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Phi-4 Mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Phi-4 Mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1449—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Phi-4 Mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Text1458—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1453—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Phi-4 Mini?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Phi-4 Mini costs 26× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 2.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro 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 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

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

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

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

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

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