Model comparison
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3-1.7B
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads 27.6 to 16.3.
Side by side
| Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 26.6 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2025-04-29 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 20.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1101 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.4% |
Reasoning Qwen3-1.7B leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.9% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1100 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 30.3% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 58.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 79.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 77% | — |
| LiveBench | 24% | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.5% | — |
Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.1% |
| LiveBench Math | 17.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1151 | — |
Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 38% |
| LMArena Expert | 1067 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 90.7% | — |
| MMLU | 75.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 88% | — |
| TriviaQA | 58.1% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 47.2% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1087 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1088 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1110 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1083 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1068 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 12.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3-1.7B?
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3-1.7B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.