Model comparison
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs Qwen3.5-9B
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.4 vs 33.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 29.6.
Side by side
| Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 33.3 |
| Released | — | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 17 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.3 (#263), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1130 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 20.8 (#214), Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1127 | — |
| DTBench | — | 71.2% |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 139.45 |
Math Qwen3.5-9B leads
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.9 (#202), Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1173 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 29.6 (#226), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79% |
| LMArena Expert | 1108 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.8 (#258), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1094 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1108 | — |
| LMArena French | 1109 | — |
| LMArena German | 1101 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1042 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 954 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1145 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1095 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.8 (#263), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1114 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.9 (#250), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1120 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.3 (#267), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1138 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1106 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1088 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than Qwen3.5-9B?
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.4 vs 33.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?
Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and Qwen3.5-9B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.