Model comparison
Phi-2 vs Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#235); 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 | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 33.3 |
| Released | 2023-12-12 | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 11 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 45.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 107.62 | 139.45 |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | — | 71.2% |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | 42.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 59.4% | — |
| HellaSwag | 53.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 54.7% | — |
Math Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Phi-2: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 75.9% | — |
| MMLU | 58.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 73.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 45.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi-2 better than Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#235); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Phi-2 and Qwen3.5-9B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Phi-2 has 11 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.