Model comparison

Phi-3.5-MoE vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi-3.5-MoE Microsoft

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Unranked

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

Summary

  • Phi-3.5-MoE has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Phi-3.5-MoE and Qwen3.8 Max specifications
Phi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—56.8
Released2024-08-172026-08-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked339

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
DeepSWE—57.5%
LMArena WebDev—1674
FrontierSWE—17.8%
SciCode—53.2%
LMArena Coding—1502

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
APEX-Agents—63.3%
τ²-bench Banking—55.1%
GDP.pdf—23.2%

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
NYT Connections (extended)—88.3%
CritPt—20%
Chess Puzzles—40%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1496
Mystery Game Puzzles—38%
DTBench—92%
LMCA—46.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.41
PIQA88.6%—

Math Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—74.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—58%
LMArena Math—1499
GSM8K88.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
GPQA Diamond—92.7%
SimpleQA Verified—47.3%
LMArena Expert—1507
BoolQ84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Vision—1314
Furniture Assembly—20%

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Non-English—1472
LMArena Chinese—1538
LMArena French—1503
LMArena German—1483
LMArena Japanese—1467
LMArena Korean—1461
LMArena Russian—1481
LMArena Spanish—1492

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Instruction Following—1479

Long Context Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Longer Query—1489

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi-3.5-MoE: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-MoEQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Text—1483
LMArena Creative Writing—1479
LMArena Multi-Turn—1489

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-3.5-MoE better than Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Phi-3.5-MoE and Qwen3.8 Max share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-3.5-MoE has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 Max has 39.

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