Model comparison
Phi-2 vs Qwen3 32B
Qwen3 32B has enough public results to be ranked (#172); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
Side by side
| Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 39.2 |
| Released | 2023-12-12 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 11 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1358 |
| HumanEval+ | 45.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 107.94 | 138.51 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1334 |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| Adversarial NLI | 42.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 59.4% | — |
| HellaSwag | 53.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 54.7% | — |
Math Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1399 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 75.9% | — |
| MMLU | 58.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 73.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 45.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1305 |
Long Context Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1331 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi-2 better than Qwen3 32B?
Qwen3 32B has enough public results to be ranked (#172); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Phi-2 and Qwen3 32B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Phi-2 has 11 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.