Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Phi-2

Gemma 3 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#277); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.5

Rank #277 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27B and Phi-2 specifications
Gemma 3 27BPhi-2
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.5—
Released2025-03-112023-12-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.08—
Output $ / M tokens$0.16—
Results tracked4311

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
SciCode21.2%—
LiveBench Coding39.9%—
LMArena Coding1322—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04107.62
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1340—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
HellaSwag—53.6%
LiveBench50%—
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
LiveBench Math55.4%—
LMArena Math1312—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
GPQA Diamond47.7%—
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
LMArena Expert1303—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
LMArena Vision1165—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
LMArena Non-English1334—
LMArena Chinese1347—
LMArena French1368—
LMArena German1362—
LMArena Japanese1287—
LMArena Korean1308—
LMArena Russian1349—
LMArena Spanish1348—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1321—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1333—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BPhi-2
LMArena Text1358—
LMArena Creative Writing1346—
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
LMArena Multi-Turn1344—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Phi-2?

Gemma 3 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#277); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Phi-2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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