Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3.5 27B

Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 27B Alibaba (Qwen)

41.9

Rank #127 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 27B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 27B leads 59.3 to 31.1.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.341.9
Released2024-04-232026-02-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked3228

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.9 (#168)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Coding11011427
LMArena WebDev—1358
WeirdML—39.5%
LiveBench Coding20.3%—
ALE-Bench—349.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 27B: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
Vending-Bench 2—201.98

Reasoning Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen3.5 27B: 27.5 (#117)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts11001414
NYT Connections (extended)—47.9%
Thematic Generalization—45.5%
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
DTBench—82.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
LMCA—34%
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.8 (#127)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Math11511429
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56.7%
LiveBench Math17.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.0 (#150)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Expert10671428
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 39.4 (#59)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Vision—1241

Multilingual Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen3.5 27B: 50.8 (#115)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Non-English10581390
LMArena Chinese10611478
LMArena French11351410
LMArena German10801393
LMArena Japanese9661345
LMArena Korean8941358
LMArena Russian11111390
LMArena Spanish11111407

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen3.5 27B: 73.5 (#119)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Instruction Following10871393
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen3.5 27B: 43.1 (#106)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Longer Query10881413

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 27B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen3.5 27B: 59.3 (#111)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5 27B
LMArena Text11101409
LMArena Creative Writing10831362
LMArena Multi-Turn10681410
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3.5 27B?

Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen3.5 27B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 27B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3.5 27B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 27B has 28.

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