Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen3.5 122B-A10B

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.1

Rank #119 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads 60.0 to 27.6.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B specifications
Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.942.1
Released2024-04-232026-02-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$3.20
Results tracked3527

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#162)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Coding10931436
LMArena WebDev—1360
SciCode—35.6%
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 27.2 (#123)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Hard Prompts10721421
NYT Connections (extended)—51.7%
CritPt—0.9%
Chess Puzzles0%—
Thematic Generalization—51.2%
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—84.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
LMCA—32.2%
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%—
HellaSwag76.7%—
LiveBench22.4%—
WinoGrande70.8%—

Math Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#112)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Math11111432
LiveBench Math15.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.8 (#142)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Expert10451432
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA64%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.6 (#57)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Vision—1245

Multilingual Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 51.6 (#107)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Non-English10211400
LMArena Chinese10211462
LMArena French10761442
LMArena German10441426
LMArena Japanese9351367
LMArena Korean9051352
LMArena Russian10221400
LMArena Spanish10851424

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 73.8 (#115)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Instruction Following10531399
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 43.0 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Longer Query10441410

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 60.0 (#105)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Text10731417
LMArena Creative Writing10371368
LMArena Multi-Turn10181416
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has 27.

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