Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
Gemma 3 27B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 3 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.5 to 29.6.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 31.3 |
| Released | 2025-03-11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.08 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | — |
| Results tracked | 43 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 leads
Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.8 (#279)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1093 |
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 20.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | 1087 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |
Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 33.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1312 | 1152 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 28.6 (#244)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | 1051 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 25.9 (#282)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | 1013 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1346 | 1033 |
| LMArena German | 1362 | 1031 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | 954 |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | 880 |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | 1019 |
| LMArena French | 1368 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1349 | — |
Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 54.1 (#282)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | 1058 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
Long Context Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 leads
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.7 (#277)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | 1042 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 29.6 (#294)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | 1080 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | 1045 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | 1049 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024?
Gemma 3 27B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 3 27B or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 better for coding?
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.8 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has 15.