Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 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 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #71 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 66.0 to 27.6.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Max Preview
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.945.3
Released2024-04-23—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3517

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Coding10931487
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts10721483
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%—
HellaSwag76.7%—
LiveBench22.4%—
WinoGrande70.8%—

Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Math11111474
LiveBench Math15.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Expert10451489
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA64%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English10211465
LMArena Chinese10211534
LMArena French10761484
LMArena German10441487
LMArena Japanese9351495
LMArena Korean9051438
LMArena Russian10221471
LMArena Spanish10851470

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following10531467
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query10441476

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Text10731470
LMArena Creative Writing10371464
LMArena Multi-Turn10181478
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

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

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