Model comparison
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs phi-3-medium 14B
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 45.7 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 73.2% for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
Side by side
| Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 43.5 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2026-04-02 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 33K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.0675 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.23 | — |
| Results tracked | 28 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1359 | — |
| SciCode | 40% | — |
| WeirdML | 35.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1447 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 927.17 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.85 | 121.23 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1439 | — |
| DTBench | 74.9% | — |
| LMCA | 29.7% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 82.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1470 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 73.2% | 27.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1447 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1260 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1421 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | — |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1420 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1428 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1434 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1402 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1441 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and phi-3-medium 14B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.