Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #72 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.7 Plus in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.7 Plus leads 64.3 to 27.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 0% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and 24% for Qwen3.7 Plus.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.945.3
Released2024-04-232026-06-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked3532

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323), Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.6 (#206)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Coding10931473
FrontierCode—10.2%
SciCode—45.5%
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 21.4 (#138)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
OSWorld 2.0—2.8%

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328), Qwen3.7 Plus: 39.3 (#59)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
Chess Puzzles0%24%
LMArena Hard Prompts10721460
NYT Connections (extended)—74.8%
CritPt—9.1%
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—84%
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
LMCA—37.6%
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—147.37
HellaSwag76.7%—
LiveBench22.4%—
WinoGrande70.8%—

Math Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257), Qwen3.7 Plus: 50.5 (#56)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Math11111466
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—34.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—93.3%
LiveBench Math15.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.9 (#51)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Expert10451467
GPQA Diamond—87.9%
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA64%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 41.8 (#33)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision—1279
LMArena Document—1444

Multilingual Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.8 (#38)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Non-English10211445
LMArena Chinese10211510
LMArena French10761473
LMArena German10441471
LMArena Japanese9351413
LMArena Korean9051415
LMArena Russian10221457
LMArena Spanish10851457

Instruction Following Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303), Qwen3.7 Plus: 75.8 (#52)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following10531440
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—

Long Context Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276), Qwen3.7 Plus: 44.5 (#65)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Longer Query10441455

Writing & Preference Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300), Qwen3.7 Plus: 64.3 (#56)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text10731455
LMArena Creative Writing10371439
LMArena Multi-Turn10181460
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen3.7 Plus better for coding?

Qwen3.7 Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen3.7 Plus share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Plus has 32.

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