Model comparison

Phi-3.5-mini vs Qwen3.7 Max

Qwen3.7 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#35); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.4

Unranked Sparse

Qwen3.7 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

51.4

Rank #35 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3.7 Max leads 50.2 to 34.0.
  • Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Phi-3.5-mini and Qwen3.7 Max specifications
Phi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.451.4
Released2024-08-162026-05-19
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked533

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.7 Max leads

Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231), Qwen3.7 Max: 50.2 (#43)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
SWE-bench Verified—77.3%
LMArena WebDev—1515
SciCode—48.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct32.8%—
LMArena Coding—1498
BigCodeBench Complete38.5%—
ALE-Bench—1,189

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 21.8 (#129)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
GBAEval—0.4%

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 48.4 (#36)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
SimpleBench—70.4%
NYT Connections (extended)—85.1%
CritPt—13.4%
Chess Puzzles—19%
EBR-Bench—9.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1483
Mystery Game Puzzles—32%
DTBench—92.3%
LMCA—44%
Epoch Capabilities Index—153.74
PIQA81%—

Math Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 62.3 (#26)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—64.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—34.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—95.6%
ProofBench—26%
LMArena Math—1488
GSM8K86.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 61.7 (#24)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
GPQA Diamond—90.9%
SimpleQA Verified—55.8%
LMArena Expert—1488
BoolQ78%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 57.1 (#13)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Non-English—1475
LMArena Chinese—1533
LMArena Russian—1482

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 76.9 (#34)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Instruction Following—1460

Long Context Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 45.4 (#34)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Longer Query—1484

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 65.2 (#52)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Text—1476
LMArena Creative Writing—1450
EQ-Bench 4—1110
LMArena Multi-Turn—1482

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-3.5-mini better than Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#35); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Phi-3.5-mini or Qwen3.7 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.7 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.2 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi-3.5-mini and Qwen3.7 Max share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-3.5-mini has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Max has 33.

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