# Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct

> Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-vs-phi-3-mini-128k-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 51.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.9% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 40.6% for Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct.
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 29.7 |
| Rank | 228 | 305 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | 29.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1039 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | 40.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1028 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1089 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 984 |
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1000 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1016 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1039 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1006 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | 899 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 856 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1004 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1059 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1023 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 996 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1050 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 989 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (28.4 vs 28.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.