Model comparison
phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 29.7 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 Qwen3.5-9B in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B and 79% for Qwen3.5-9B.
Side by side
| phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.7 | 33.8 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 48.7% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
Reasoning Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 121.23 | 139.46 |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | — | 71.2% |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 81.4% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.5% | — |
Math Qwen3.5-9B leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
| MATH Level 5 | 17.6% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.6% | 79% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 91.6% | — |
| MMLU | 78% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 87.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (36.8 vs 35.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen3.5-9B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.