# Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

> Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-phi-3-small-8k-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 52.5 to 31.3.
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 28.8 |
| Rank | 253 | 310 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.4 (#313)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | 1102 |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 20.3% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.2 (#319)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | 1100 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | 79.1% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.9% |
| DTBench | 59% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 30.3% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 58.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 77% |
| LiveBench | — | 24% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 25.4 (#247)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1315 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 17.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#237)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | 1067 |
| MMLU | 86.9% | 75.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 90.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 58.1% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.6 (#267)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | 1061 |
| LMArena French | 1301 | 1134 |
| LMArena German | 1286 | 1080 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | 966 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 894 |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | 1111 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1310 | 1111 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 52.2 (#287)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1087 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 47.2% |
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#262)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | 1088 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.3 (#279)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | 1068 |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 12.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.