# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 27.6.
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 27.9 |
| Rank | 246 | 328 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1093 |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | 54.2% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1072 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1111 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1045 |
| MMLU | 77.9% | 68.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1021 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1076 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | 1085 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1053 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1044 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1018 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.