Model comparison

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 30.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

30.1

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads 27.6 to 16.2.

Side by side

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Phi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.330.1
Released2024-04-232024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked327

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LiveBench Coding20.3%—
LMArena Coding1101—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning15.9%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1100—
LiveBench Data Analysis30.3%—
Adversarial NLI58.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard79.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.52
HellaSwag77%—
LiveBench24%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
LiveBench Math17.6%—
LMArena Math1151—
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%
LMArena Expert1067—
ARC (AI2) Challenge90.7%—
MMLU75.7%—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA58.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1058—
LMArena Chinese1061—
LMArena French1135—
LMArena German1080—
LMArena Japanese966—
LMArena Korean894—
LMArena Russian1111—
LMArena Spanish1111—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following47.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1087—

Long Context Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1088—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Small 8k InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1110—
LMArena Creative Writing1083—
LMArena Multi-Turn1068—
LiveBench Language12.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 30.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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