Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Phi-1.5

Gemma 3 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#284); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Phi-1.5 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27B and Phi-1.5 specifications
Gemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.8—
Released2025-03-112023-09-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.08—
Output $ / M tokens$0.16—
Results tracked437

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Phi-1.5: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
SciCode21.2%—
LiveBench Coding39.9%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Phi-1.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Phi-1.5: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
Epoch Capabilities Index130.0491.53
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1340—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
HellaSwag—47.6%
LiveBench50%—
WinoGrande—73.4%

Math Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Phi-1.5: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
LiveBench Math55.4%—
LMArena Math1312—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Phi-1.5: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
GPQA Diamond47.7%—
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
LMArena Expert1304—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—44.4%
BoolQ—75.8%
MMLU—37.6%
OpenBookQA—37.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Phi-1.5: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
LMArena Vision1164—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Phi-1.5: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
LMArena Non-English1334—
LMArena Chinese1346—
LMArena French1368—
LMArena German1362—
LMArena Japanese1287—
LMArena Korean1308—
LMArena Russian1349—
LMArena Spanish1349—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Phi-1.5: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1321—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Phi-1.5: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1333—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Phi-1.5: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-1.5
LMArena Text1358—
LMArena Creative Writing1346—
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
LMArena Multi-Turn1345—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Phi-1.5?

Gemma 3 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#284); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Phi-1.5 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Phi-1.5 has 7.

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