Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus leads with 4.2% 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 Reasoning Plus was created as an enhanced reasoning variant, designed to provide even deeper analytical capabilities within the Phi-4 family. Built to maximize reasoning quality while maintaining the efficiency benefits of small models, it represents the most capable reasoning-focused option in the Phi-4 series.
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 Reasoning Plus
Microsoft
2025-04-30
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
2025-03-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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