Model comparison
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen3 14B
Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.0 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 14B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 14B leads 37.0 to 24.5.
Side by side
| Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.4 | 35.0 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 14B leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319), Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 31.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 15.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1093 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 59.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41% |
Reasoning Qwen3 14B leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326), Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 26.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1072 | — |
| DTBench | — | 64% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34.7% | — |
| LMCA | — | 18.2% |
| Adversarial NLI | 52.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 71.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.23 |
| HellaSwag | 76.7% | — |
| LiveBench | 22.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 70.8% | — |
Math Qwen3 14B leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258), Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 15.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1111 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241), Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 63.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1045 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 84.9% | — |
| MMLU | 68.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 88% | — |
| TriviaQA | 64% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1021 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1021 | — |
| LMArena French | 1075 | — |
| LMArena German | 1044 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 935 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 905 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1022 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1084 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 39.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1053 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 14B leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271), Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1044 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1073 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1018 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 9.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen3 14B?
Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.0 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen3 14B better for coding?
Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen3 14B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.