Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 26.6.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index56.527.9
Released2026-09-302024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked2135

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding15501093
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
SciCode61.8%—
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15481072
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math15361111
ProofBench99%—
LiveBench Math—15.7%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert15531045
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English15231021
LMArena Chinese16101021
LMArena Russian15371022
LMArena Spanish14971085
LMArena French—1076
LMArena German—1044
LMArena Japanese—935
LMArena Korean—905

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15381053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query15491044

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text15341073
LMArena Creative Writing15311037
LMArena Multi-Turn15571018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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