Model comparison
Gemini 3 Deep Think vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#324); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
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- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.8 to 13.6.
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3 Deep Think | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 58.5 | 27.4 |
| Released | 2026-02-12 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 3 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1093 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads
Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.8 (#11), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 84.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 96% | — |
| CritPt | 25.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1072 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1111 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1045 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1021 |
| LMArena French | — | 1075 |
| LMArena German | — | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1084 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1053 |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1044 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1018 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#324); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.