Model comparison
phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen Plus
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. phi-3-medium 14B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen Plus in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen Plus leads 27.4 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B and 65.3% for Qwen Plus.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.1 | 36.7 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen Plus leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198), Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1328 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 48.7% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1317 |
| DTBench | — | 81.1% |
| LMCA | — | 24% |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 81.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 121.18 | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.5% | — |
Math phi-3-medium 14B leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249), Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 17.6% | 65.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1326 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Qwen Plus leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.6% | 48.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1328 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 91.6% | — |
| MMLU | 78% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 87.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1323 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1303 |
Long Context Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1325 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1336 |
Frequently asked questions
Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen Plus?
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen Plus better for coding?
Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen Plus share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.