Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 32B leads 52.9 to 31.1.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.339.2
Released2024-04-232025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked3226

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Coding11011358
Aider Polyglot—40%
SciCode—35.4%
LiveBench Coding20.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Hard Prompts11001334
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
DTBench—67.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
LMCA—17.3%
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.51
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Math11511399
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.9%
LiveBench Math17.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Expert10671362
GPQA Diamond—65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English10581317
LMArena Chinese10611357
LMArena German10801341
LMArena Russian11111311
LMArena French1135—
LMArena Japanese966—
LMArena Korean894—
LMArena Spanish1111—

Instruction Following Qwen3 32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following10871305
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query10881327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3 32B
LMArena Text11101340
LMArena Creative Writing10831297
LMArena Multi-Turn10681331
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3 32B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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