Model comparison
phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 37.0 to 9.1.
Side by side
| phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.7 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1412 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 48.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
Reasoning Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1372 |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 81.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 121.23 | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.5% | — |
Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1365 |
| MATH Level 5 | 17.6% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1338 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 91.6% | — |
| MMLU | 78% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 87.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1346 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena French | — | 1398 |
| LMArena German | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1310 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1360 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1355 |
Long Context Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1378 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)
| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1357 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1365 |
Frequently asked questions
Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?
phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.