Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3.5 122B-A10B

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.1

Rank #119 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads 60.0 to 31.1.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.342.1
Released2024-04-232026-02-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$3.20
Results tracked3227

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#162)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Coding11011436
LMArena WebDev—1360
SciCode—35.6%
LiveBench Coding20.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 27.2 (#123)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Hard Prompts11001421
NYT Connections (extended)—51.7%
CritPt—0.9%
Thematic Generalization—51.2%
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—84.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
LMCA—32.2%
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#112)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Math11511432
LiveBench Math17.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.8 (#142)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Expert10671432
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.6 (#57)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Vision—1245

Multilingual Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 51.6 (#107)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Non-English10581400
LMArena Chinese10611462
LMArena French11351442
LMArena German10801426
LMArena Japanese9661367
LMArena Korean8941352
LMArena Russian11111400
LMArena Spanish11111424

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 73.8 (#115)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Instruction Following10871399
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 43.0 (#109)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Longer Query10881410

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 60.0 (#105)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Text11101417
LMArena Creative Writing10831368
LMArena Multi-Turn10681416
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has 27.

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