Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 55.6 to 34.1.

Side by side

Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.038.9
Released—2025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked1732

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding11301416
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts11271398
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—8%
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math11731394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70.3%

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Expert11081396
GPQA Diamond—70.1%
Confabulations—12.3%

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English10941372
LMArena Chinese11081433
LMArena French11101418
LMArena German11011380
LMArena Japanese10421337
LMArena Korean9541331
LMArena Russian11451370
LMArena Spanish10951404

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following11131363

Long Context Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query11201379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text11381384
LMArena Creative Writing11071317
LMArena Multi-Turn10881378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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