Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 14B leads 38.6 to 27.6.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3 14B specifications
Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.335.5
Released2024-04-232025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked3212

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 14B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
LiveBench Coding20.3%—
LMArena Coding1101—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Qwen3 14B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1100—
DTBench—64%
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
LMCA—18.2%
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.23
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3 14B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%
LiveBench Math17.6%—
LMArena Math1151—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%
LMArena Expert1067—
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1058—
LMArena Chinese1061—
LMArena French1135—
LMArena German1080—
LMArena Japanese966—
LMArena Korean894—
LMArena Russian1111—
LMArena Spanish1111—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1087—

Long Context Qwen3 14B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1088—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1110—
LMArena Creative Writing1083—
LMArena Multi-Turn1068—
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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