Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs phi-3-medium 14B

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 66.3 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.8% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Gemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index54.229.7
Released2026-05-192024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$9—
Results tracked5413

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
SciCode53.1%—
WeirdML62.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1492—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46121.23
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%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench59—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond92.8%27.6%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1495—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1310—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
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-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1482—
LMArena Creative Writing1470—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.4 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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