Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen2-72B

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2-72B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Qwen2-72B leads 61.7 to 51.9.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2-72B specifications
Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.330.0
Released2024-04-232024-06-07
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3226

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2-72B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
LMArena Coding11011196
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
LiveBench Coding20.3%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts11001191
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.28
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen2-72B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
LMArena Math11511235
LiveBench Math17.6%—
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
LMArena Expert10671171
MMLU75.7%82.4%
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multilingual Qwen2-72B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English10581176
LMArena Chinese10611240
LMArena French11351170
LMArena German10801151
LMArena Japanese9661111
LMArena Korean8941083
LMArena Russian11111169
LMArena Spanish11111169

Instruction Following Qwen2-72B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following10871181
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—

Long Context Qwen2-72B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query10881192

Writing & Preference Qwen2-72B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2-72B
LMArena Text11101203
LMArena Creative Writing10831181
LMArena Multi-Turn10681196
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen2-72B?

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Qwen2-72B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.1 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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