Model comparison

phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen1.5-32B

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. phi-3-medium 14B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-32B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-32B leads 33.0 to 27.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 48.7% for phi-3-medium 14B and 42% for Qwen1.5-32B.

Side by side

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
phi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-32B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.730.5
Released2024-04-232024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1321

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct37.6%32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete48.7%42%
LMArena Coding—1155

Reasoning Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1130
Adversarial NLI55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard81.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index121.23—
HellaSwag82.4%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen1.5-32B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math—1155
MATH Level 517.6%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-32B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond27.6%30.7%
MMLU78%74.4%
LMArena Expert—1126
ARC (AI2) Challenge91.6%—
OpenBookQA87.4%—
TriviaQA73.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English—1106
LMArena Chinese—1177
LMArena French—1101
LMArena German—1058
LMArena Japanese—1027
LMArena Korean—1008
LMArena Russian—1073
LMArena Spanish—1089

Instruction Following Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following—1116

Long Context Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query—1146

Writing & Preference Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text—1137
LMArena Creative Writing—1083
LMArena Multi-Turn—1140

Frequently asked questions

Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen1.5-32B?

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen1.5-32B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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