Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Microsoft
Phi 4 Reasoning is a language model developed by Microsoft. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 75.1% across 11 benchmarks. It excels particularly in FlenQA (97.7%), HumanEval+ (92.9%), IFEval (83.4%). It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Microsoft's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 7B Instruct is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The model shows competitive results across 14 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MT-Bench (84.1%), GSM8k (82.3%), HumanEval (79.9%). It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2024, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
9 months newer
Qwen2 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23
Phi 4 Reasoning
Microsoft
2025-04-30
Average performance across 22 common benchmarks
Phi 4 Reasoning
Qwen2 7B Instruct
Phi 4 Reasoning
2025-03-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Phi 4 Reasoning
Qwen2 7B Instruct
Phi 4 Reasoning
Qwen2 7B Instruct