# Phi-2 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

> Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-2-vs-qwen2-5-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Phi-2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 29.0 |
| Rank | — | 320 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.17 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 45.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |

## Reasoning

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 107.94 | 118.51 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Adversarial NLI | 42.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 59.4% | — |
| HellaSwag | 53.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 54.7% | — |

## Math

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |

## Knowledge

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 58.4% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 75.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 73.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 45.2% | — |

## Instruction Following

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |

## Writing & Preference

- Phi-2: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Phi-2 better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Phi-2 and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-2 has 11 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.