Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

36.4

Rank #208 Confirmed

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

32.4

Rank #246 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 57.0 to 34.3.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index36.432.4
Released2025-06-17—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3317

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#167), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.3 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding13731130
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench325.9—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 27.8 (#89), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard36.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 21.5 (#196), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 20.8 (#214)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13771127
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.5%—
DTBench62.8%—
LMCA18.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.93—

Math Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 35.5 (#144), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.9 (#202)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Math13731173
Omni-MATH48%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.1 (#206), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 29.6 (#226)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert13731108
MMLU-Pro53.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.3%—
GPQA (HELM)30.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.6 (#109), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1198—
VPCT30%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.5 (#129), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.8 (#258)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English13691094
LMArena Chinese14041108
LMArena French13881109
LMArena German13901101
LMArena Japanese13591042
LMArena Korean1358954
LMArena Russian13731145
LMArena Spanish13961095

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.2 (#163), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.8 (#263)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13661114
IFEval81%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#257), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.9 (#250)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13731120
Fiction.LiveBench47.2%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 57.0 (#130), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.3 (#267)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 Flash-LitePhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text13791138
LMArena Creative Writing13661106
LMArena Multi-Turn13671088
WildBench81.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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