Model comparison

Phi-2 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Phi-2 Microsoft

—

Unranked

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.0

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Phi-2 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Phi-2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—29.0
Released2023-12-122024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1115

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%
HumanEval+45.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index107.94118.51
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench—47.7%
LMCA—6.4%
Adversarial NLI42.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard59.4%—
HellaSwag53.6%—
WinoGrande54.7%—

Math Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
MMLU58.4%72.9%
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge75.9%—
OpenBookQA73.6%—
TriviaQA45.2%—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
WildBench—73.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-2 better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Phi-2 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-2 has 11 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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