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AI Tool Comparison
Gemma 3 vs Phi-4
A side-by-side breakdown to help you pick the right tool for your workflow.
Gemma 3
Superseded by Gemma 4 (April 2026) — Gemini-3-derived reasoning and agentic capability in five open sizes from 2B to 31B, running on phones, laptops, or servers with a 256K context window.
Models
free
Phi-4
Run vision and multi-step reasoning in a compact 15B model — read documents, ground UI elements, and solve math and science problems on modest hardware. Now Phi-4-reasoning-vision.
Models
free
Bottom Line
Gemma 3 edges ahead on rating (4.5 vs 4.4), but the right pick still comes down to which workflow you're running.
Choose Gemma 3 if…
Models
Choose Phi-4 if…
Models
| Attribute | Gemma 3 | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Models | Models |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Pricing Detail | Free and open-weight (Apache 2.0) — now on Gemma 4 | Free and open-weight via Microsoft Foundry, Hugging Face |
| Rating |
Key Features
Gemma 3
- Open weights
- Multilingual and multimodal
- Multiple sizes
- Runs on single GPU
Phi-4
- Strong reasoning at small size
- Open weights
- Efficient inference
- Good for local/edge use
Pros
Gemma 3
- •High quality and open
- •Good documentation
- •Flexible sizes
Phi-4
- •Excellent quality-per-parameter
- •Free and open
- •Runs on modest hardware
Cons
Gemma 3
- Self-hosting expertise needed
- Behind frontier closed models
Phi-4
- Smaller knowledge breadth
- Needs ML setup to deploy