Model comparison

Phi-4 Mini vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.4

Rank #280 Reported

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.4

Rank #153 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where QwQ-32B leads 37.2 to 24.8.

Side by side

Phi-4 Mini and QwQ-32B specifications
Phi-4 MiniQwQ-32B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.439.4
Released2024-12-112024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.075—
Output $ / M tokens$0.30—
Results tracked336

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Category by category

Coding QwQ-32B leads

Phi-4 Mini: 27.6 (#312), QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4 MiniQwQ-32B
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
SciCode10.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1333
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Phi-4 Mini: 21.7 (#190), QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4 MiniQwQ-32B
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1326
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Not comparable

Phi-4 Mini: —, QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4 MiniQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%
LMArena Math—1359

Knowledge QwQ-32B leads

Phi-4 Mini: 24.8 (#261), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4 MiniQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate23.5%—
LMArena Expert—1323

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi-4 Mini: —, QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4 MiniQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English—1306
LMArena Chinese—1378
LMArena French—1337
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1263
LMArena Korean—1278
LMArena Russian—1297
LMArena Spanish—1353

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi-4 Mini: —, QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4 MiniQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context Not comparable

Phi-4 Mini: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4 MiniQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi-4 Mini: —, QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4 MiniQwQ-32B
LMArena Text—1329
LMArena Creative Writing—1288
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-4 Mini better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi-4 Mini or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi-4 Mini and QwQ-32B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-4 Mini has 3 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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