Model comparison

phi-3-medium 14B vs Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.1

Rank #306 Reported

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #98 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads 39.6 to 9.1.

Side by side

phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B specifications
phi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.142.5
Released2024-04-232025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked1318

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 41.8 (#103)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
BigCodeBench Instruct37.6%—
LMArena Coding—1438
BigCodeBench Complete48.7%—

Reasoning Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 28.1 (#92)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1428
Adversarial NLI55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard81.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index121.18—
HellaSwag82.4%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 36.2 (#120)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Math—1426
MATH Level 517.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.6 (#120)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
GPQA Diamond27.6%—
LMArena Expert—1440
ARC (AI2) Challenge91.6%—
MMLU78%—
OpenBookQA87.4%—
TriviaQA73.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.1 (#50)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision—1247

Multilingual Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 52.1 (#92)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English—1405
LMArena Chinese—1462
LMArena French—1448
LMArena German—1424
LMArena Japanese—1385
LMArena Korean—1395
LMArena Russian—1409
LMArena Spanish—1427

Instruction Following Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 74.4 (#95)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following—1407

Long Context Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 43.4 (#93)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query—1420

Writing & Preference Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 60.4 (#94)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Text—1420
LMArena Creative Writing—1367
LMArena Multi-Turn—1428

Frequently asked questions

Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is phi-3-medium 14B or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has 18.

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