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Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

28.8

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #98 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads 60.4 to 31.3.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.842.5
Released2024-04-232025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked3218

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.4 (#313), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 41.8 (#103)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding11021438
LiveBench Coding20.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.2 (#319), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 28.1 (#92)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts11001428
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 25.4 (#247), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 36.2 (#120)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Math11511426
LiveBench Math17.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#237), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.6 (#120)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert10671440
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.1 (#50)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision—1247

Multilingual Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.6 (#267), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 52.1 (#92)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English10581405
LMArena Chinese10611462
LMArena French11341448
LMArena German10801424
LMArena Japanese9661385
LMArena Korean8941395
LMArena Russian11111409
LMArena Spanish11111427

Instruction Following Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 52.2 (#287), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 74.4 (#95)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following10871407
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—

Long Context Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#262), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 43.4 (#93)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query10881420

Writing & Preference Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.3 (#279), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 60.4 (#94)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Text11101420
LMArena Creative Writing10831367
LMArena Multi-Turn10681428
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has 18.

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