Model comparison
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen3 8B
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.0 vs 33.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 8B leads 36.1 to 30.2.
Side by side
| Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.0 | 33.7 |
| Released | — | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1130 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1127 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1173 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1108 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1094 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1108 | — |
| LMArena French | 1110 | — |
| LMArena German | 1101 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1042 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 954 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1145 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1095 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1113 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1120 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1138 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1107 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1088 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen3 8B?
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.0 vs 33.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.