Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.1 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

30.1

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads 38.7 to 26.6.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.930.1
Released2024-04-232024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked357

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
LMArena Coding1093—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles0%0%
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1072—
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.52
HellaSwag76.7%—
LiveBench22.4%—
WinoGrande70.8%—

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
LiveBench Math15.7%—
LMArena Math1111—
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%
LMArena Expert1045—
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA64%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1021—
LMArena Chinese1021—
LMArena French1076—
LMArena German1044—
LMArena Japanese935—
LMArena Korean905—
LMArena Russian1022—
LMArena Spanish1085—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1053—

Long Context Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1044—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1073—
LMArena Creative Writing1037—
LMArena Multi-Turn1018—
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.1 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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