Model comparison

phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen1.5-72B

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.1

Rank #306 Reported

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.3

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. phi-3-medium 14B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-72B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-72B leads 30.7 to 25.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 48.7% for phi-3-medium 14B and 40.3% for Qwen1.5-72B.

Side by side

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
phi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-72B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.130.3
Released2024-04-232024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1322

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct37.6%33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete48.7%40.3%
LMArena Coding—1166
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1148
Adversarial NLI55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard81.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index121.18—
HellaSwag82.4%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen1.5-72B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math—1164
MATH Level 517.6%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-72B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond27.6%28.8%
LMArena Expert—1136
ARC (AI2) Challenge91.6%—
MMLU78%—
OpenBookQA87.4%—
TriviaQA73.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English—1135
LMArena Chinese—1186
LMArena French—1158
LMArena German—1084
LMArena Japanese—1061
LMArena Korean—1049
LMArena Russian—1104
LMArena Spanish—1110

Instruction Following Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1142

Long Context Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1157

Writing & Preference Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text—1166
LMArena Creative Writing—1137
LMArena Multi-Turn—1160

Frequently asked questions

Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen1.5-72B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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