Noometry

Model comparison

Phi-3.5-mini vs Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#236); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.8

Rank #236 Confirmed

Side by side

Phi-3.5-miniQwen3.5-9B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.933.8
Released2024-08-162026-02-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked510

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads

Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.5-9B
SciCode—27.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct32.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete38.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.5-9B
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—12%
DTBench—71.2%
LMCA—24.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.46
PIQA81%—

Math Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.5-9B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—61.7%
GSM8K86.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond—79%
BoolQ78%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-3.5-mini better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#236); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Phi-3.5-mini or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi-3.5-mini and Qwen3.5-9B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-3.5-mini has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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