Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Phi-4

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Phi-4 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 17.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 13.8% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Phi-4 specifications
Gemini 3 ProPhi-4
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index54.831.2
Released2025-11-182024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked6737

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi-4
LMArena Coding14811231
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%28.8%
BALROG58.1%11.6%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi-4
Chess Puzzles31%1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801220
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92130.42
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
ForecastBench61.2—
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi-4
GPQA Diamond92.6%56.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%3.7%
LMArena Expert14751203
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Confabulations—29.4%
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
MMLU—84.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Phi-4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi-4
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi-4
LMArena Non-English14741197
LMArena Chinese15231212
LMArena French14921224
LMArena German15151222
LMArena Japanese15101158
LMArena Korean14481151
LMArena Russian14931209
LMArena Spanish14701234

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following14581201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query14711217
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProPhi-4
LMArena Text14791217
LMArena Creative Writing14821182
LMArena Multi-Turn14841206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Phi-4?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Phi-4 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Phi-4 share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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