Model comparison

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 5 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 34.1.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index33.233.0
Released2024-05-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4217

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding12611130
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12571127
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Math12691173
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert12331108
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12781094
LMArena Chinese12951108
LMArena French12581110
LMArena German12621101
LMArena Japanese12521042
LMArena Korean1221954
LMArena Russian12881145
LMArena Spanish12431095

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12581113
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12841120

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text12871138
LMArena Creative Writing12851107
LMArena Multi-Turn12531088
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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