# Phi-3.5-mini vs Qwen-14B

> Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#273); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-3-5-mini-vs-qwen-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi-3.5-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-14B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.0 to 30.6.

## Snapshot

| | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.4 | 30.8 |
| Rank | — | 273 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)
- Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 32.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1072 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| PIQA | 81% | 79.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1027 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.8 |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |

## Math

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.2% | 61.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1068 |

## Knowledge

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 78% | 86.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.4% |
| MMLU | — | 66.3% |

## Multilingual

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1042 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1077 |

## Instruction Following

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1031 |

## Long Context

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1029 |

## Writing & Preference

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1022 |

## FAQ

### Is Phi-3.5-mini better than Qwen-14B?

Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#273); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Phi-3.5-mini or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Phi-3.5-mini and Qwen-14B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-3.5-mini has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.