The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Microsoft: Phi 4 ·Google vs Microsoft

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Microsoft: Phi 4 — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash profile Microsoft: Phi 4 profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash — Google
Quality
#3 of 61
95based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#31 of 316
119.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#257 of 340
$3.38
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.50 · Out $9.00
Cache hit price
#127 of 206
$0.15
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#46 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Microsoft: Phi 4 — Microsoft
Quality
#50 of 61
33based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#142 of 316
56.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#40 of 340
$0.09
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.07 · Out $0.14
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
#334 of 345
16k
tokens (~25 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 95 and Microsoft: Phi 4 scores 33 — a 62-point lead for Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash. They share 2 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash ahead on 2 and Microsoft: Phi 4 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $3.38 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash and $0.09 for Microsoft: Phi 4 — Microsoft: Phi 4 is about 38.6× cheaper.

Throughput is 119 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash and 56 for Microsoft: Phi 4, with time to first token at 1.7s and 0.2s. Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 16k.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash is proprietary; Microsoft: Phi 4 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 3 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashMicrosoft: Phi 4
Known Good Index 95 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 33 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $3.38 $0.09
Output tok/s 119 56
Context window 1.05M 16k
Providers 2 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashMicrosoft: Phi 4
Known Good Index 95 33
Mathematics Index 96 39
Science Index 98 53
Reasoning Index — 47
Agentic Index 92 —
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash · marker = Microsoft: Phi 4 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond93 / 56
MATH / AIME96 / 14

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash / Microsoft: Phi 4. Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash leads on 2 of 2, Microsoft: Phi 4 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashMicrosoft: Phi 4
Text Arena — 1,217
Text Arena (style controlled) — 1,256
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashMicrosoft: Phi 4
Input $/1M $1.50 $0.07
Output $/1M $9.00 $0.14
Blended $/1M $3.38 $0.09
Cache read $/1M $0.150 —
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashMicrosoft: Phi 4
Context window 1.05M 16k
Max output tokens 66k 16k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashMicrosoft: Phi 4
Output tokens/s 119 56
Time to first token 1.7s 0.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

3 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash blendedGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash tok/s Microsoft: Phi 4 blendedMicrosoft: Phi 4 tok/s
Google AI Studio $1.69 205 — —
Google · first party $1.69 121 — —
DeepInfra — — $0.09 70

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →