Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 Max leads 62.4 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 Max
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.943.7
Released2024-04-232025-09-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.20
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked3533

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding10931456
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
ALE-Bench—370.45
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3 Max
Chess Puzzles0%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts10721448
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
LMCA—28.3%
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.38
HellaSwag76.7%—
LiveBench22.4%—
WinoGrande70.8%—

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3 Max
LMArena Math11111446
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
LiveBench Math15.7%—
MATH Level 5—97.1%

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3 Max
LMArena Expert10451455
GPQA Diamond—72.6%
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA64%—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English10211429
LMArena Chinese10211478
LMArena French10761449
LMArena German10441463
LMArena Japanese9351397
LMArena Korean9051399
LMArena Russian10221428
LMArena Spanish10851462

Instruction Following Qwen3 Max leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following10531419
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—

Long Context Qwen3 Max leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query10441438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3 Max
LMArena Text10731439
LMArena Creative Writing10371402
LMArena Multi-Turn10181446
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.0 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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