Model comparison

Phi-1.5 vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified October 12, 2026. 1 shared benchmarks.

Phi-1.5

Microsoft

—

Unranked

Qwen3 8B

Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Phi-1.5 and Qwen3 8B specifications
	Phi-1.5	Qwen3 8B
Provider	Microsoft	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	—	33.7
Released	2023-09-11	2025-04
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	131K
Max output	—	8K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$0.18
Output $ / M tokens	—	$0.70
Results tracked	7	11

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Phi-1.5	Qwen3 8B
SciCode	—	22.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Phi-1.5	Qwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	42.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Phi-1.5	Qwen3 8B
Epoch Capabilities Index	91.53	136.17
CritPt	—	0%
Chess Puzzles	—	5%
DTBench	—	59.7%
LMCA	—	8.8%
HellaSwag	47.6%	—
WinoGrande	73.4%	—

Math Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Phi-1.5	Qwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	56.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Phi-1.5	Qwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond	—	56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	4.8%
ARC (AI2) Challenge	44.4%	—
BoolQ	75.8%	—
MMLU	37.6%	—
OpenBookQA	37.2%	—

Long Context Not comparable

Phi-1.5: —, Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Phi-1.5	Qwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench	—	62.1%

Frequently asked questions

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