Model comparison

Phi-4 vs Qwen1.5-14B

Qwen1.5-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Phi-4 Microsoft

30.9

Rank #269 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.1

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi-4 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-14B leads 29.9 to 19.6.

Side by side

Phi-4 and Qwen1.5-14B specifications
Phi-4Qwen1.5-14B
ProviderMicrosoftAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.932.1
Released2024-12-112024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.07—
Output $ / M tokens$0.14—
Results tracked3717

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Category by category

Coding Phi-4 leads

Phi-4: 33.8 (#237), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.5 (#259)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Coding12311138
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding30.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Phi-4: 22.6 (#120), Qwen1.5-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4Qwen1.5-14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard28.8%—
BALROG11.6%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-14B leads

Phi-4: 17.0 (#287), Qwen1.5-14B: 20.5 (#217)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts12201113
Chess Puzzles1%—
LiveBench Reasoning47.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis45.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index130.43—
LiveBench41.6%—

Math Qwen1.5-14B leads

Phi-4: 19.6 (#279), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.9 (#214)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Math12461125
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202513.8%—
LiveBench Math42%—
MATH Level 564.9%—

Knowledge Phi-4 leads

Phi-4: 32.5 (#204), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.3 (#230)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Expert12031094
MMLU84.8%68.6%
GPQA Diamond56.1%—
Confabulations29.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate3.7%—

Multilingual Phi-4 leads

Phi-4: 37.4 (#232), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.8 (#257)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Non-English11971095
LMArena Chinese12111147
LMArena French12231115
LMArena German12221043
LMArena Japanese11581019
LMArena Russian12091046
LMArena Spanish12341085
LMArena Korean1151—

Instruction Following Phi-4 leads

Phi-4: 60.6 (#246), Qwen1.5-14B: 57.1 (#266)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Instruction Following12011102
LiveBench Instruction Following58.4%—

Long Context Phi-4 leads

Phi-4: 36.9 (#221), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#252)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Longer Query12171113

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

Phi-4: 40.7 (#239), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#270)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-4Qwen1.5-14B
LMArena Text12171128
LMArena Creative Writing11821091
LMArena Multi-Turn12061110
Short-Story Creative Writing62.6%—
LiveBench Language25.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-4 better than Qwen1.5-14B?

Qwen1.5-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Phi-4 or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?

Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi-4 and Qwen1.5-14B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-4 has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.

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