Model comparison
Phi-3.5-mini vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi-3.5-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.6 to 22.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 38.5% for Phi-3.5-mini and 58% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
Side by side
| Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.9 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2024-08-16 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 29K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.66 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Results tracked | 5 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads
Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)
| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 32.8% | 49% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.5% | 58% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1276 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1251 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.49 |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| PIQA | 81% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |
Math Not comparable
Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)
| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.2% | 93% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1251 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1221 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| BoolQ | 78% | — |
| MMLU | — | 79.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1228 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1223 |
Long Context Not comparable
Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1251 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi-3.5-mini better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Phi-3.5-mini or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?
Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.6 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Phi-3.5-mini and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-3.5-mini has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.