Model comparison

Gemma 3 4B vs Phi-1.5

Gemma 3 4B has enough public results to be ranked (#326); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 4B Google

28.1

Rank #326 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 4B and Phi-1.5 specifications
Gemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index28.1—
Released2025-03-122023-09-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.04—
Output $ / M tokens$0.08—
Results tracked227

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215), Phi-1.5: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
LMArena Coding1230—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142), Phi-1.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard19.6%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335), Phi-1.5: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
Epoch Capabilities Index116.0291.53
Kagi LLM Benchmark25.2%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1253—
DTBench50.9%—
LMCA2.8%—
HellaSwag—47.6%
WinoGrande—73.4%

Math Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292), Phi-1.5: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.5%—
LMArena Math1239—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299), Phi-1.5: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
GPQA Diamond23.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.4%—
LMArena Expert1223—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—44.4%
BoolQ—75.8%
MMLU—37.6%
OpenBookQA—37.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194), Phi-1.5: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
LMArena Non-English1273—
LMArena German1281—
LMArena Russian1294—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225), Phi-1.5: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
LMArena Instruction Following1239—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194), Phi-1.5: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
LMArena Longer Query1273—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239), Phi-1.5: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BPhi-1.5
LMArena Text1291—
LMArena Creative Writing1271—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1068—
LMArena Multi-Turn1255—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 4B better than Phi-1.5?

Gemma 3 4B has enough public results to be ranked (#326); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and Phi-1.5 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Phi-1.5 has 7.

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