Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

28.8

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

37.2

Rank #194 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads 51.4 to 28.5.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.837.2
Released2024-04-232026-04-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$1.49
Results tracked3214

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.4 (#313), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 36.7 (#190)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
SciCode—35.8%
WeirdML—34.5%
LiveBench Coding20.3%—
LMArena Coding1102—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 21.9 (#126)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
Terminal-Bench—23%

Reasoning Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.2 (#319), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 27.2 (#112)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
NYT Connections (extended)—41.6%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—26%
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1100—
Mystery Game Puzzles—22%
DTBench—73.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
LMCA—29.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—44.4%
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.92
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 25.4 (#247), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.9 (#90)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LiveBench Math17.6%—
LMArena Math1151—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#237), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.4 (#63)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
LMArena Expert1067—
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.6 (#267), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English1058—
LMArena Chinese1061—
LMArena French1134—
LMArena German1080—
LMArena Japanese966—
LMArena Korean894—
LMArena Russian1111—
LMArena Spanish1111—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 52.2 (#287), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1087—

Long Context Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#262), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query1088—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.3 (#279), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Text1110—
LMArena Creative Writing1083—
LMArena Multi-Turn1068—
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.

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