# Phi-2 vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#285); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-2-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Phi-2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 30.8 |
| Rank | — | 285 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 45.1% | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | 54.2% | 61.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1165 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |

## Reasoning

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1148 |
| Adversarial NLI | 42.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 59.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 107.94 | — |
| HellaSwag | 53.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 54.7% | — |

## Math

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1164 |

## Knowledge

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1136 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 75.9% | — |
| MMLU | 58.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 73.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 45.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1186 |
| LMArena French | — | 1159 |
| LMArena German | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1050 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1141 |

## Long Context

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1160 |

## FAQ

### Is Phi-2 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#285); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Phi-2 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-2 has 11 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.