Model comparison

Phi-3.5-mini vs Qwen2-72B

Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#294); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.4

Unranked Sparse

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

29.5

Rank #294 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi-3.5-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2-72B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.0 to 28.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 38.5% for Phi-3.5-mini and 54% for Qwen2-72B.

Side by side

Phi-3.5-mini and Qwen2-72B specifications
Phi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.429.5
Released2024-08-162024-06-07
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked526

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Category by category

Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads

Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231), Qwen2-72B: 28.7 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct32.8%38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete38.5%54%
WeirdML—11.3%
LMArena Coding—1196

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2-72B: 16.9 (#138)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2-72B: 22.2 (#184)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1191
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.27
PIQA81%—

Math Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2-72B: 27.9 (#232)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Math—1235
MATH Level 5—39.1%
GSM8K86.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#270)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
LMArena Expert—1171
BoolQ78%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.0 (#239)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English—1176
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1169
LMArena German—1151
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1083
LMArena Russian—1169
LMArena Spanish—1168

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2-72B: 62.0 (#236)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1181

Long Context Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#230)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1193

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen2-72B: 41.0 (#236)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen2-72B
LMArena Text—1203
LMArena Creative Writing—1181
LMArena Multi-Turn—1195

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-3.5-mini better than Qwen2-72B?

Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#294); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Phi-3.5-mini or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi-3.5-mini and Qwen2-72B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-3.5-mini has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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