Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct leads with 10.2% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Phi-3.5-vision-instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Gemma 3 4B was developed as a compact yet capable open-source model, designed to strike a balance between performance and resource efficiency. Built with 4 billion parameters and instruction tuning, it provides a practical option for applications requiring moderate capability with manageable computational costs.
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 4B
2025-03-12
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Gemma 3 4B

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Gemma 3 4B
2024-08-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Gemma 3 4B
DeepInfra

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Gemma 3 4B

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Gemma 3 4B

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct