Model comparison

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

32.4

Rank #246 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

28.6

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 30.9 to 11.8.

Side by side

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.428.6
Released—2024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1715

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.3 (#263), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1130—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 20.8 (#214), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1127—
DTBench—47.7%
LMCA—6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.44

Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.9 (#202), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1173—

Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 29.6 (#226), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
LMArena Expert1108—
MMLU—72.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.8 (#258), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1094—
LMArena Chinese1108—
LMArena French1109—
LMArena German1101—
LMArena Japanese1042—
LMArena Korean954—
LMArena Russian1145—
LMArena Spanish1095—

Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.8 (#263), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1114—

Long Context Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.9 (#250), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1120—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.3 (#267), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1138—
LMArena Creative Writing1106—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn1088—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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