Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Phi 4 Mini Reasoning leads with 3.0% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Microsoft
Phi-4 Mini Reasoning was developed to incorporate extended thinking capabilities into the ultra-compact Phi-4 Mini architecture. Built to demonstrate that reasoning enhancements can be applied even to very small models, it brings analytical depth to resource-constrained environments.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 72B was developed as the flagship text model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced language capabilities with 72 billion parameters. Built to compete with frontier models in reasoning, coding, and general language tasks, it represents Qwen's most capable instruction-following model in this generation.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning
Microsoft
2025-04-30
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Phi 4 Mini Reasoning
2025-02-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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