Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs Phi-4

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 9 categories and Phi-4 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 20.8.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index56.531.2
Released2026-09-302024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked2137

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
LMArena Coding15501231
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
SciCode61.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts15481220
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.42
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
LMArena Math15361246
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
ProofBench99%—
LiveBench Math—42%
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
LMArena Expert15531203
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
MMLU—84.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), Phi-4: —

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
LMArena Non-English15231197
LMArena Chinese16101212
LMArena Russian15371209
LMArena Spanish14971234
LMArena French—1224
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following15381201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query15491217

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonPhi-4
LMArena Text15341217
LMArena Creative Writing15311182
LMArena Multi-Turn15571206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Phi-4?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or Phi-4 better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and Phi-4 share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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