Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 55.6 to 31.1.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.338.9
Released2024-04-232025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked3232

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding11011416
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%
LiveBench Coding20.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts11001398
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—8%
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
DTBench—69.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
LMCA—22.4%
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math11511394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70.3%
LiveBench Math17.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Expert10671396
GPQA Diamond—70.1%
Confabulations—12.3%
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English10581372
LMArena Chinese10611433
LMArena French11351418
LMArena German10801380
LMArena Japanese9661337
LMArena Korean8941331
LMArena Russian11111370
LMArena Spanish11111404

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following10871363
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—

Long Context Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query10881379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text11101384
LMArena Creative Writing10831317
LMArena Multi-Turn10681378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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