# Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

> Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-vs-phi-3-small-8k-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 51.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 78.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 15.9% for Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct.
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 29.3 |
| Rank | 228 | 314 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | 20.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1101 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | 15.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1100 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | 30.3% |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | 24% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 58.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 77% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | 17.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1067 |
| MMLU | 79.7% | 75.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 90.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 58.1% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1061 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1135 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1080 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | 966 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 894 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1111 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1111 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | 47.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1087 |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1088 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1068 |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | 12.9% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (28.4 vs 27.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.