Model comparison
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Microsoft
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 27.6.
Side by side
| Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.9 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2024-04-23 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 15.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1093 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 59.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 26.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1072 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34.7% | — |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Adversarial NLI | 52.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 71.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.51 |
| HellaSwag | 76.7% | — |
| LiveBench | 22.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | 70.8% | — |
Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 15.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1111 | — |
Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 68.8% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1045 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 84.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 88% | — |
| TriviaQA | 64% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1021 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1021 | — |
| LMArena French | 1076 | — |
| LMArena German | 1044 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 935 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 905 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1022 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1085 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 39.1% | — |
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1053 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1044 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1073 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1037 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1018 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 9.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.