Noometry

Model comparison

phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. phi-3-medium 14B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-Flash in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 43.2 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B and 82.3% for Qwen3.5-Flash.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

phi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.742.5
Released2024-04-232026-02-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1332

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201), Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena WebDev—1244
BigCodeBench Instruct37.6%—
LMArena Coding—1412
BigCodeBench Complete48.7%—
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: —

Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
Epoch Capabilities Index121.23143.98
Chess Puzzles—21%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1403
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
DTBench—82.9%
LMCA—29.1%
Adversarial NLI55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard81.4%—
HellaSwag82.4%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250), Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
LMArena Math—1407
MATH Level 517.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
GPQA Diamond27.6%82.3%
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
LMArena Expert—1407
ARC (AI2) Challenge91.6%—
MMLU78%—
OpenBookQA87.4%—
TriviaQA73.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English—1385
LMArena Chinese—1446
LMArena French—1412
LMArena German—1390
LMArena Japanese—1368
LMArena Korean—1344
LMArena Russian—1379
LMArena Spanish—1400

Instruction Following Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following—1374

Long Context Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query—1392

Writing & Preference Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text—1397
LMArena Creative Writing—1343
LMArena Multi-Turn—1393

Frequently asked questions

Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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