Model comparison

phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen2-72B

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. phi-3-medium 14B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2-72B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2-72B leads 21.2 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B and 39.1% for Qwen2-72B.

Side by side

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen2-72B specifications
phi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.730.0
Released2024-04-232024-06-07
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1326

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct37.6%38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete48.7%54%
WeirdML—11.3%
LMArena Coding—1196

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
Epoch Capabilities Index121.23125.28
LMArena Hard Prompts—1191
Adversarial NLI55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard81.4%—
HellaSwag82.4%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen2-72B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
MATH Level 517.6%39.1%
LMArena Math—1235

Knowledge Qwen2-72B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond27.6%40.8%
MMLU78%82.4%
LMArena Expert—1171
ARC (AI2) Challenge91.6%—
OpenBookQA87.4%—
TriviaQA73.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English—1176
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1170
LMArena German—1151
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1083
LMArena Russian—1169
LMArena Spanish—1169

Instruction Following Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1181

Long Context Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1192

Writing & Preference Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen2-72B
LMArena Text—1203
LMArena Creative Writing—1181
LMArena Multi-Turn—1196

Frequently asked questions

Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen2-72B?

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen2-72B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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