Model comparison
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 31.1.
Side by side
| Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1101 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.9% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1100 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 30.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Adversarial NLI | 58.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 79.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.51 |
| HellaSwag | 77% | — |
| LiveBench | 24% | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.5% | — |
Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 17.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1151 | — |
Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 75.7% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1067 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 90.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 88% | — |
| TriviaQA | 58.1% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1058 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1061 | — |
| LMArena French | 1135 | — |
| LMArena German | 1080 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 966 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 894 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1111 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1111 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 47.2% | — |
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1087 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1088 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1110 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1083 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1068 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 12.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.