Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.4

Rank #324 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 47.9 to 24.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 0% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and 22% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.442.3
Released2024-04-232026-02-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked3515

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
LMArena Coding1093—
ALE-Bench—621.92
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles0%22%
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1072—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—80.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
LMCA—36.4%
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.79
HellaSwag76.7%—
LiveBench22.4%—
WinoGrande70.8%—

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LiveBench Math15.7%—
LMArena Math1111—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1045—
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA64%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1021—
LMArena Chinese1021—
LMArena French1075—
LMArena German1044—
LMArena Japanese935—
LMArena Korean905—
LMArena Russian1022—
LMArena Spanish1084—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1053—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1044—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1073—
LMArena Creative Writing1037—
LMArena Multi-Turn1018—
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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