Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 46.0 to 28.1.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 and Qwen3.5 Plus specifications
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.742.3
Released—2026-02-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked1515

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.2 (#275), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Coding1093—
ALE-Bench—621.92

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 19.9 (#229), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles—22%
LMArena Hard Prompts1088—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—80.5%
LMCA—36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.79

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 30.4 (#209), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LMArena Math1152—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 28.1 (#240), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1051—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 26.0 (#277), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1013—
LMArena Chinese1033—
LMArena German1031—
LMArena Japanese954—
LMArena Korean880—
LMArena Russian1019—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 54.3 (#277), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1058—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.6 (#272), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1042—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 29.7 (#289), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1080—
LMArena Creative Writing1045—
LMArena Multi-Turn1049—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has 15 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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