Model comparison

phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #71 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 41.8 to 9.1.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen3.5 Max Preview specifications
phi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5 Max Preview
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.745.3
Released2024-04-23—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1317

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5 Max Preview
BigCodeBench Instruct37.6%—
LMArena Coding—1487
BigCodeBench Complete48.7%—

Reasoning Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts—1483
Adversarial NLI55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard81.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index121.23—
HellaSwag82.4%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Math—1474
MATH Level 517.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond27.6%—
LMArena Expert—1489
ARC (AI2) Challenge91.6%—
MMLU78%—
OpenBookQA87.4%—
TriviaQA73.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English—1465
LMArena Chinese—1534
LMArena French—1484
LMArena German—1487
LMArena Japanese—1495
LMArena Korean—1438
LMArena Russian—1471
LMArena Spanish—1470

Instruction Following Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following—1467

Long Context Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query—1476

Writing & Preference Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Text—1470
LMArena Creative Writing—1464
LMArena Multi-Turn—1478

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.

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