Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Phi-4 Mini
Gemma 3 27B and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 1 category and Phi-4 Mini in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Phi-4 Mini leads 22.4 to 16.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 7.4% for Gemma 3 27B and 23.5% for Phi-4 Mini.
- Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.075 / $0.30 for Phi-4 Mini.
- Gemma 3 27B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2025-03-11 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 128K |
| Max output | 8K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.08 | $0.075 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 43 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi-4 Mini leads
Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 21.2% | 10.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1312 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | 23.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1346 | — |
| LMArena French | 1368 | — |
| LMArena German | 1362 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1349 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Phi-4 Mini?
Gemma 3 27B and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Phi-4 Mini?
Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Phi-4 Mini lists at $0.075 and $0.30.
Is Gemma 3 27B or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?
Phi-4 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.1 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemma 3 27B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Phi-4 Mini share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.