Model comparison

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

30.1

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 33.4 to 16.2.

Side by side

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.030.1
Released—2024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked177

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1130—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%

Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1127—
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.52

Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
LMArena Math1173—
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%
LMArena Expert1108—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1094—
LMArena Chinese1108—
LMArena French1110—
LMArena German1101—
LMArena Japanese1042—
LMArena Korean954—
LMArena Russian1145—
LMArena Spanish1095—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1113—

Long Context Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1120—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1138—
LMArena Creative Writing1107—
LMArena Multi-Turn1088—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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