Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

43.0

Rank #102 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 58.0 to 34.1.

Side by side

Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.043.0
Released—2025-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked1725

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding11301440

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11271428
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.7%

Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Math11731440
Omni-MATH—46.7%

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Expert11081417
MMLU-Pro—78.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—63%

Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English10941407
LMArena Chinese11081460
LMArena French11101413
LMArena German11011417
LMArena Japanese10421395
LMArena Korean9541364
LMArena Russian11451404
LMArena Spanish10951435

Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11131389
IFEval—81%

Long Context Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query11201403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text11381417
LMArena Creative Writing11071334
LMArena Multi-Turn10881416
WildBench—80.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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