Model comparison

Phi-1.5 vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Phi-1.5 Microsoft

—

Unranked

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Phi-1.5 and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Phi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—31.9
Released2023-09-112024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked743

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
LMArena Coding—1292
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index91.53129
HellaSwag47.6%84.8%
WinoGrande73.4%82.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1271
DTBench—62.9%
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
ForecastBench—57.5
PIQA—82.6%

Math Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
Omni-MATH—33%
LMArena Math—1283
MATH Level 5—63.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
ARC (AI2) Challenge44.4%94.5%
MMLU37.6%85.3%
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
Confabulations—19.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
LMArena Expert—1245
BoolQ75.8%—
OpenBookQA37.2%—
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1252
LMArena Chinese—1272
LMArena French—1280
LMArena German—1234
LMArena Japanese—1180
LMArena Korean—1188
LMArena Russian—1264
LMArena Spanish—1256

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
IFEval—80.6%
LMArena Instruction Following—1254

Long Context Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1282

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text—1269
LMArena Creative Writing—1221
WildBench—80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1272

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-1.5 better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Phi-1.5 and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-1.5 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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