Model comparison
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 8B leads 34.9 to 27.6.
Side by side
| Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1101 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Qwen3 8B leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.9% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1100 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 30.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Adversarial NLI | 58.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 79.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
| HellaSwag | 77% | — |
| LiveBench | 24% | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.5% | — |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LiveBench Math | 17.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1151 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1067 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 90.7% | — |
| MMLU | 75.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 88% | — |
| TriviaQA | 58.1% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1058 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1061 | — |
| LMArena French | 1135 | — |
| LMArena German | 1080 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 966 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 894 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1111 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1111 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 47.2% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1087 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1088 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1110 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1083 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1068 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 12.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.