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Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.4

Rank #324 Confirmed

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #98 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads 60.4 to 27.7.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.442.5
Released2024-04-232025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked3518

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 41.8 (#103)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding10931438
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Reasoning Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 28.1 (#92)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts10721428
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%—
HellaSwag76.7%—
LiveBench22.4%—
WinoGrande70.8%—

Math Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 36.2 (#120)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Math11111426
LiveBench Math15.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.6 (#120)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert10451440
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA64%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.1 (#50)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision—1247

Multilingual Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 52.1 (#92)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English10211405
LMArena Chinese10211462
LMArena French10751448
LMArena German10441424
LMArena Japanese9351385
LMArena Korean9051395
LMArena Russian10221409
LMArena Spanish10841427

Instruction Following Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 74.4 (#95)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following10531407
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—

Long Context Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 43.4 (#93)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query10441420

Writing & Preference Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 60.4 (#94)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Text10731420
LMArena Creative Writing10371367
LMArena Multi-Turn10181428
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has 18.

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