Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Phi-4
Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Phi-4 leads 40.5 to 27.1.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Phi-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.07 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.14 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi-4 leads
Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1231 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 30.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 7B: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.8% |
| BALROG | — | 11.6% |
Reasoning Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1220 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 130.42 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 47.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 45.2% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 41.6% |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1246 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 13.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 64.9% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Phi-4 leads
Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1203 |
| MMLU | 66.1% | 84.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 29.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |
Multilingual Phi-4 leads
Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1197 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1212 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1224 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1209 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1151 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1234 |
Instruction Following Phi-4 leads
Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1201 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.4% |
Long Context Phi-4 leads
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1217 |
Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads
Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1217 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1182 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1206 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62.6% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Phi-4?
Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 7B or Phi-4 better for coding?
Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Phi-4 share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.