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Gemini 3 Pro vs phi-3-mini 3.8B

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Winner summary

Gemini 3 Pro wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.

Category leads
knowledge·Gemini 3 Pro
Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Pro
#71 by perf·#6 by attention
DESERVED
phi-3-mini 3.8B
#86 by perf·#20 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
Gemini 3 Pro
n/a
no price
phi-3-mini 3.8B
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
Microsoft logo
Microsoft
$3.84T·Big Tech
Low risk
Head to head
Gemini 3 Prophi-3-mini 3.8B
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3 Pro leads by +27.4
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3 Pro
27.4
phi-3-mini 3.8B
0.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 Prophi-3-mini 3.8B
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
27.40.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Pro————
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