Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads 46.7 to 27.6.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.931.9
Released2024-04-232024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked3543

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding10931292
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10721271
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%79.8%
HellaSwag76.7%84.8%
WinoGrande70.8%82.3%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
DTBench—62.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
LMCA—13.4%
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—129
ForecastBench—57.5
LiveBench22.4%—
PIQA—82.6%

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Math11111283
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
Omni-MATH—33%
LiveBench Math15.7%—
MATH Level 5—63.2%

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Expert10451245
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%94.5%
MMLU68.8%85.3%
TriviaQA64%71.9%
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
Confabulations—19.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
OpenBookQA88%—

Multilingual Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English10211252
LMArena Chinese10211272
LMArena French10761280
LMArena German10441234
LMArena Japanese9351180
LMArena Korean9051188
LMArena Russian10221264
LMArena Spanish10851256

Instruction Following Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10531254
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—
IFEval—80.6%

Long Context Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query10441282

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text10731269
LMArena Creative Writing10371221
LMArena Multi-Turn10181272
WildBench—80.2%
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.2 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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