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Model comparison

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 42.1 to 30.2.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.038.8
Released—2026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked1713

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Coding1130—
ALE-Bench—326.4

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.6 Flash
SimpleBench—35.2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1127—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—77.1%
LMCA—31%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.26

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
LMArena Math1173—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
LMArena Expert1108—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.6 Flash
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), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1113—

Long Context Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1120—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1138—
LMArena Creative Writing1107—
LMArena Multi-Turn1088—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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