Phi 3 Mini 4K Instruct vs Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B
Wins 0 of 4 areas
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Wins 3 of 4 areas
Coding · Long documents · Following instructions
Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B is the stronger all-rounder.
Scores updated · 18 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the four areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
Long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B pulls ahead
- Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+17.7points ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+17.2points ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+17points ahead
Where Phi 3 Mini 4K Instruct pulls ahead
- Very hard expert questions across many subjectsHumanity's Last Exam+1.4points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 18 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen2.5 Instruct 72B
- SciCodeQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 17.7926.7+17.7
- Terminal-Bench HardQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 4.504.5+4.5
ReasoningEven
- GPQA DiamondQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 17.231.949.1+17.2
- Humanity's Last ExamPhi 3 Mini 4K Instruct by 1.453.6+1.4
Following instructionsQwen2.5 Instruct 72B
- IFBenchQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 1323.936.9+13
Other results12 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- MATHQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 37.850.688.4+37.8
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 34.5034.5+34.5
- HumanEvalQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 29.357.386.6+29.3
- MBPPQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 18.469.888.2+18.4
- OpenBookQAQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 1482.296.2+14
- WinoGrandeQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 10.771.682.3+10.7
- HellaSwagQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 9.575.384.8+9.5
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 8.9311.9+8.9
- ARC-ChallengeQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 8.286.394.5+8.2
- MMLUQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 6.170.977+6.1
- AA IntelligenceQwen2.5 Instruct 72B by 1.95.87.7+1.9
- PIQAtie83.582.6tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Phi 3 Mini 4K Instruct or Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B?
Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B wins three of the four areas where both have results: coding, long documents and following instructions. Phi 3 Mini 4K Instruct wins none. They are level on reasoning.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Phi 3 Mini 4K Instruct wins none.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 18 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 6 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 12 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.