Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs phi-3-medium 14B

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B 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 31B IT leads 37.9 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 75.8% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B IT and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Gemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index43.529.7
Released2026-04-022024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.09—
Output $ / M tokens$0.34—
Results tracked3513

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena WebDev1366—
SciCode43.4%—
WeirdML52.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1459—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench925.5—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74121.23
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)70.6%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
Thematic Generalization53%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1448—
DTBench82.7%—
LMCA39.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench30.6%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%—
LMArena Math1465—
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond75.8%27.6%
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
LMArena Expert1465—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1277—
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1476—
LMArena French1435—
LMArena Russian1460—
LMArena Spanish1444—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1433—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1446—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1415—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1368—
EQ-Bench 41120—
LMArena Multi-Turn1452—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 4 31B IT or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 31B IT and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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