Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen3.5 27B

Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 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 27B Alibaba (Qwen)

41.9

Rank #127 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 27B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 27B leads 59.3 to 27.6.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.941.9
Released2024-04-232026-02-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked3528

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.9 (#168)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Coding10931427
LMArena WebDev—1358
WeirdML—39.5%
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
ALE-Bench—349.45
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 27B: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
Vending-Bench 2—201.98

Reasoning Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328), Qwen3.5 27B: 27.5 (#117)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts10721414
NYT Connections (extended)—47.9%
Chess Puzzles0%—
Thematic Generalization—45.5%
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
DTBench—82.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
LMCA—34%
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%—
HellaSwag76.7%—
LiveBench22.4%—
WinoGrande70.8%—

Math Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.8 (#127)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Math11111429
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56.7%
LiveBench Math15.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.0 (#150)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Expert10451428
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA64%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 39.4 (#59)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Vision—1241

Multilingual Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280), Qwen3.5 27B: 50.8 (#115)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Non-English10211390
LMArena Chinese10211478
LMArena French10761410
LMArena German10441393
LMArena Japanese9351345
LMArena Korean9051358
LMArena Russian10221390
LMArena Spanish10851407

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303), Qwen3.5 27B: 73.5 (#119)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Instruction Following10531393
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276), Qwen3.5 27B: 43.1 (#106)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Longer Query10441413

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300), Qwen3.5 27B: 59.3 (#111)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Text10731409
LMArena Creative Writing10371362
LMArena Multi-Turn10181410
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen3.5 27B?

Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen3.5 27B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 27B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen3.5 27B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 27B has 28.

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