Model comparison

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen1.5-72B

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 30.2 to 11.5.

Side by side

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen1.5-72B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.030.8
Released—2024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1722

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding11301165
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Reasoning Too close to call

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts11271148

Math Too close to call

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math11731164

Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Expert11081136
GPQA Diamond—28.8%

Multilingual Qwen1.5-72B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English10941135
LMArena Chinese11081186
LMArena French11101159
LMArena German11011084
LMArena Japanese10421061
LMArena Korean9541050
LMArena Russian11451104
LMArena Spanish10951110

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-72B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following11131141

Long Context Qwen1.5-72B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query11201157

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-72B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text11381166
LMArena Creative Writing11071137
LMArena Multi-Turn10881160

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 31.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen1.5-72B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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