Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 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-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 57.9 to 31.1.
  • Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.342.5
Released2024-04-232026-02-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked3232

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding11011412
LMArena WebDev—1244
LiveBench Coding20.3%—
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts11001403
Chess Puzzles—21%
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
DTBench—82.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
LMCA—29.1%
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.98
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Math11511407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
LiveBench Math17.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Expert10671407
GPQA Diamond—82.3%
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English10581385
LMArena Chinese10611446
LMArena French11351412
LMArena German10801390
LMArena Japanese9661368
LMArena Korean8941344
LMArena Russian11111379
LMArena Spanish11111400

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following10871374
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query10881392

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text11101397
LMArena Creative Writing10831343
LMArena Multi-Turn10681393
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3.5-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

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

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