Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct Microsoft

29.7

Rank #305 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 55.6 to 27.1.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.738.9
Released2024-04-232025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked1932

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding10391416
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct29.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts10281398
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 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math10891394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70.3%

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Expert9841396
GPQA Diamond—70.1%
Confabulations—12.3%

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English10001372
LMArena Chinese10161433
LMArena French10391418
LMArena German10061380
LMArena Japanese8991337
LMArena Korean8561331
LMArena Russian10041370
LMArena Spanish10591404

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following10231363

Long Context Too close to call

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query9961379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 128k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text10501384
LMArena Creative Writing10241317
LMArena Multi-Turn9891378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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