# Phi-3.5-mini vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#159); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-3-5-mini-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi-3.5-mini scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 38.5% for Phi-3.5-mini and 54.4% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Phi-3.5-mini | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.9 | 39.8 |
| Rank | — | 159 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 32.8% | 44.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.5% | 54.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1333 |

## Reasoning

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1325 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
| PIQA | 81% | — |

## Math

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
| GSM8K | 86.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1324 |
| BoolQ | 78% | — |

## Multilingual

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena French | — | 1336 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1297 |

## Long Context

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1308 |

## Writing & Preference

- Phi-3.5-mini: —
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-mini | QwQ-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% |

## FAQ

### Is Phi-3.5-mini better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#159); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Phi-3.5-mini or QwQ-32B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.6 vs 35.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Phi-3.5-mini and QwQ-32B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-3.5-mini has 5 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.