Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 30.2.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct specifications
Gemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index54.833.0
Released2025-11-18—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6717

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding14811130
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
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 Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14801127
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Math14761173
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
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 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert14751108
GPQA Diamond92.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English14741094
LMArena Chinese15231108
LMArena French14921110
LMArena German15151101
LMArena Japanese15101042
LMArena Korean1448954
LMArena Russian14931145
LMArena Spanish14701095

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14581113
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14711120
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text14791138
LMArena Creative Writing14821107
LMArena Multi-Turn14841088
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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