Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs phi-3-medium 14B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.6% for Gemini 3 Pro and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Gemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index54.829.7
Released2025-11-182024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked6713

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1481—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92121.23
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench61.2—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LMArena Math1476—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond92.6%27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1474—
LMArena Chinese1523—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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