Noometry

Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where QwQ-32B leads 72.6 to 51.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 15.9% for Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and 83.5% for QwQ-32B.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwQ-32B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.339.8
Released2024-04-232024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3236

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Category by category

Coding QwQ-32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwQ-32B
LiveBench Coding20.3%72.2%
LMArena Coding11011333
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwQ-32B
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts11001325
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%65%
LiveBench24%72%
Chess Puzzles—5%
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
HellaSwag77%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math QwQ-32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwQ-32B
LiveBench Math17.6%77.8%
LMArena Math11511359
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%

Knowledge QwQ-32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Expert10671324
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multilingual QwQ-32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English10581305
LMArena Chinese10611378
LMArena French11351336
LMArena German10801313
LMArena Japanese9661262
LMArena Korean8941279
LMArena Russian11111297
LMArena Spanish11111354

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following10871297

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query10881308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Text11101329
LMArena Creative Writing10831288
LMArena Multi-Turn10681314
LiveBench Language12.9%51.4%
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and QwQ-32B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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