# Phi-4 Mini vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

> Phi-4 Mini and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-4-mini-vs-qwen2-5-vl-72b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Phi-4 Mini is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Phi-4 Mini | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.4 |
| Rank | 280 | 298 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.075 | $2.80 |
| Output $/M | $0.30 | $8.40 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Phi-4 Mini: 27.6 (#312)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Phi-4 Mini | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 10.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Phi-4 Mini: —
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)

| Benchmark | Phi-4 Mini | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | — | 5% |

## Reasoning

- Phi-4 Mini: 21.7 (#190)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)

| Benchmark | Phi-4 Mini | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Phi-4 Mini: 24.8 (#261)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Phi-4 Mini | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 23.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Phi-4 Mini: —
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)

| Benchmark | Phi-4 Mini | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Phi-4 Mini better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Phi-4 Mini and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Phi-4 Mini or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Phi-4 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Phi-4 Mini and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-4 Mini has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.