Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct vs Qwen2 72B Instruct
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct and Qwen2 72B Instruct are closely matched at 1.9 and 6.0 on the LLM Stats Score.
Microsoft · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026
Which is better?
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct and Qwen2 72B Instruct are closely matched on the overall LLM Stats Score at 1.9 and 6.0.
In the 11 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Qwen2 72B Instruct wins 8; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.
Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.
Choose Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
- you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 2024
Choose Qwen2 72B Instruct
- your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
- you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 8 of 11 exact shared results
At a glance
The differences that matter most.
Capability indexes
Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks
Individual benchmarks
31 reported for Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct · 17 for Qwen2 72B Instruct
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct outperforms in 3 benchmarks (ARC-C, MBPP, TruthfulQA), while Qwen2 72B Instruct is better at 8 benchmarks (GPQA, GSM8k, HellaSwag, HumanEval, MATH, MMLU, MMLU-Pro, Winogrande).
Qwen2 72B Instruct shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.
Human preference
Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores
Model Size
Parameter count comparison
Qwen2 72B Instruct has 12.0B more parameters than Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct, making it 20.0% larger.
License
Usage and distribution terms
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct is licensed under MIT, while Qwen2 72B Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.
License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.
MIT
Open weights
tongyi-qianwen
Open weights
Release Timeline
When each model was launched
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct was released on 2024-08-23, while Qwen2 72B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct is 1 month newer than Qwen2 72B Instruct.
Aug 23, 2024
2.0 years ago
1mo newerJul 23, 2024
2.1 years ago
Knowledge Cutoff
When training data ends
Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.
Unable to compare the recency of their training data.
Outputs Comparison
Judge for yourself.
Run your own prompts against Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct and Qwen2 72B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.
FAQ
Common questions about Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct vs Qwen2 72B Instruct.