Phi 4 Reasoning Plus vs Qwen3 32B Comparison

Comparing Phi 4 Reasoning Plus and Qwen3 32B across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

4 benchmarks

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus outperforms in 1 benchmarks (AIME 2025), while Qwen3 32B is better at 3 benchmarks (AIME 2024, Arena Hard, LiveCodeBench).

Qwen3 32B shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Microsoft
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 32B
Input tokens$0.10
Output tokens$0.30
Best providerDeepinfra
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

18.8B diff

Qwen3 32B has 18.8B more parameters than Phi 4 Reasoning Plus, making it 134.3% larger.

Microsoft
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
14.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 32B
32.8Bparameters
14.0B
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
32.8B
Qwen3 32B

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen3 32B specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Qwen3 32B specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Microsoft
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 32B
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus is licensed under MIT, while Qwen3 32B uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

MIT

Open weights

Qwen3 32B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus was released on 2025-04-30, while Qwen3 32B was released on 2025-04-29.

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus is 0 month newer than Qwen3 32B.

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Apr 30, 2025

10 months ago

1d newer
Qwen3 32B

Apr 29, 2025

10 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-03-01, while Qwen3 32B's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Phi 4 Reasoning Plus's training data extends to 2025-03-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Qwen3 32B's cutoff date.

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Mar 2025

Qwen3 32B

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Higher AIME 2025 score (78.0% vs 72.9%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3 32B

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Larger context window (128,000 tokens)
Higher AIME 2024 score (81.4% vs 81.3%)
Higher Arena Hard score (93.8% vs 79.0%)
Higher LiveCodeBench score (65.7% vs 53.1%)

Detailed Comparison

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Feature
Microsoft
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 32B