Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Phi-4 Mini

Phi-4 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

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Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.9

Rank #283 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi-4 Mini leads 25.3 to 9.7.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9B and Phi-4 Mini specifications
Gemma 2 9BPhi-4 Mini
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index25.930.9
Released2024-06-242024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.075
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked353

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 2 9B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-4 Mini
SciCode—10.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
LMArena Coding1173—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-4 Mini
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1171—
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83—
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Phi-4 Mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-4 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%—
LiveBench Math19.8%—
LMArena Math1183—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Phi-4 Mini leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-4 Mini
GPQA Diamond27.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.5%
LMArena Expert1147—
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Non-English1188—
LMArena Chinese1185—
LMArena French1190—
LMArena German1186—
LMArena Japanese1144—
LMArena Korean1137—
LMArena Russian1200—
LMArena Spanish1200—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Phi-4 Mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-4 Mini
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1178—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Phi-4 Mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Longer Query1197—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Phi-4 Mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Text1207—
LMArena Creative Writing1206—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LMArena Multi-Turn1193—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Phi-4 Mini?

Phi-4 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?

Gemma 2 9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.4 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Phi-4 Mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.

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