Model comparison

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.0 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 32.9 to 22.6.

Side by side

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.033.4
Released—2024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked1731

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Category by category

Coding Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Coding11301276
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Reasoning Too close to call

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts11271251
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—119.49
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Too close to call

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math11731251
LiveBench Math—46.6%
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert11081221
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multilingual Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English10941205
LMArena Chinese11081222
LMArena Russian11451228
LMArena French1110—
LMArena German1101—
LMArena Japanese1042—
LMArena Korean954—
LMArena Spanish1095—

Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following11131223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query11201251

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text11381230
LMArena Creative Writing11071174
LMArena Multi-Turn10881222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.0 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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