Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 57.9 to 34.1.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.042.5
Released—2026-02-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1732

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268), Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding11301412
LMArena WebDev—1244
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts11271403
Chess Puzzles—21%
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
DTBench—82.9%
LMCA—29.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.98

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202), Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Math11731407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Expert11081407
GPQA Diamond—82.3%
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English10941385
LMArena Chinese11081446
LMArena French11101412
LMArena German11011390
LMArena Japanese10421368
LMArena Korean9541344
LMArena Russian11451379
LMArena Spanish10951400

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following11131374

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query11201392

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272), Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text11381397
LMArena Creative Writing11071343
LMArena Multi-Turn10881393

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

Qwen3.5-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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