# Gemma 2B vs Phi-1.5

> Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-phi-1-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | — |
| Rank | 307 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 91.53 |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | 47.6% |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | 73.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | — |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | 44.4% |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | 75.8% |
| MMLU | 42.3% | 37.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 37.2% |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than Phi-1.5?

Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Phi-1.5 share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Phi-1.5 has 7.