Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Phi-3.5-mini

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 49.4 to 34.6.
  • Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index54.236.9
Released2026-05-192024-08-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked545

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LMArena Coding1492—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt13.1%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46—
ForecastBench59—
PIQA—81%

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)62.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%—
ProofBench31%—
LMArena Math1504—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1495—
BoolQ—78%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1476—
LMArena Chinese1526—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1492—
LMArena Japanese1486—
LMArena Korean1451—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1480—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1482—
LMArena Creative Writing1470—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.4 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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