Model comparison

phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen2.5-Max

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.7

Rank #146 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. phi-3-medium 14B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 35.3 to 9.1.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen2.5-Max specifications
phi-3-medium 14BQwen2.5-Max
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.740.7
Released2024-04-232025-01-25
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1327

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5-Max leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2.5-Max
BigCodeBench Instruct37.6%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%
LMArena Coding—1359
BigCodeBench Complete48.7%—

Reasoning Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2.5-Max
Epoch Capabilities Index121.23132.53
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1360
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
Adversarial NLI55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard81.4%—
HellaSwag82.4%—
LiveBench—62.3%
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen2.5-Max leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2.5-Max
LiveBench Math—58.4%
LMArena Math—1369
MATH Level 517.6%—

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Max leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2.5-Max
GPQA Diamond27.6%—
Confabulations—21.8%
LMArena Expert—1337
ARC (AI2) Challenge91.6%—
MMLU78%—
OpenBookQA87.4%—
TriviaQA73.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English—1352
LMArena Chinese—1382
LMArena French—1396
LMArena German—1350
LMArena Japanese—1300
LMArena Korean—1304
LMArena Russian—1353
LMArena Spanish—1377

Instruction Following Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2.5-Max
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%
LMArena Instruction Following—1335

Long Context Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query—1358

Writing & Preference Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text—1367
LMArena Creative Writing—1339
Short-Story Creative Writing—72.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1364
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Qwen2.5-Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen2.5-Max share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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