Model comparison
phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen3.7 Plus
Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. phi-3-medium 14B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.7 Plus in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.7 Plus leads 54.9 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B and 87.9% for Qwen3.7 Plus.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.7 | 45.3 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2026-06-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.60 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201), Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | — | 10.2% |
| SciCode | — | 45.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1473 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 48.7% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 21.4 (#138)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 2.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 39.3 (#59)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 121.23 | 147.37 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.8% |
| CritPt | — | 9.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 24% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1460 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 84% |
| LMCA | — | 37.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 81.4% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.5% | — |
Math Qwen3.7 Plus leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250), Qwen3.7 Plus: 50.5 (#56)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 34.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 93.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1466 |
| MATH Level 5 | 17.6% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.7 Plus leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.9 (#51)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.6% | 87.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1467 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 91.6% | — |
| MMLU | 78% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 87.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 41.8 (#33)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1279 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1444 |
Multilingual Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.8 (#38)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1445 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1510 |
| LMArena French | — | 1473 |
| LMArena German | — | 1471 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1413 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1415 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1457 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1457 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 75.8 (#52)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1440 |
Long Context Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 44.5 (#65)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1455 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 64.3 (#56)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1455 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1439 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1460 |
Frequently asked questions
Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen3.7 Plus?
Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen3.7 Plus better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (36.8 vs 36.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen3.7 Plus share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Plus has 32.