Model comparison
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 58.2 to 27.7.
Side by side
| Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.4 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1093 | 1441 |
| LiveBench Coding | 15.5% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 59.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.2% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1072 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 26.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34.7% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 52.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 71.7% | — |
| HellaSwag | 76.7% | — |
| LiveBench | 22.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 70.8% | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1111 | 1440 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 15.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1045 | 1416 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 84.9% | — |
| MMLU | 68.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 88% | — |
| TriviaQA | 64% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1021 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1021 | 1461 |
| LMArena French | 1075 | 1415 |
| LMArena German | 1044 | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | 935 | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | 905 | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | 1022 | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1084 | 1436 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1053 | 1388 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 39.1% | — |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1044 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1073 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1037 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1018 | 1415 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
| LiveBench Language | 9.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.