Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus leads with 15.0% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Phi 4 Reasoning Plus is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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
Qwen2.5-VL 32B was developed as a mid-sized vision-language model, designed to balance multimodal capability with practical deployment considerations. Built with 32 billion parameters for vision and language integration, it serves applications requiring strong visual understanding without flagship-scale resources.
2 months newer

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-02-28

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
Microsoft
2025-04-30
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
2025-03-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct