Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct leads with 1.4% higher average benchmark score. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Gemma 3 12B was developed as part of the third generation of Google's open-source model family, designed to provide enhanced capabilities in a mid-sized format. Built with improved architecture and training techniques, it balances performance with practical deployment considerations for diverse use cases.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 Vision was developed as a multimodal variant of Phi-3.5, designed to understand and reason about both images and text. Built to extend the Phi family's efficiency into vision-language tasks, it enables compact multimodal AI for practical applications.
6 months newer

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Microsoft
2024-08-23

Gemma 3 12B
2025-03-12
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Gemma 3 12B

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Available providers and their performance metrics

Gemma 3 12B
DeepInfra

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Gemma 3 12B

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Gemma 3 12B

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