Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.
Qwen2.5-72B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 72 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen2.5-72B's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 84 against 80.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 82 to 56.1. Phi-4 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen2.5-72B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.
Pick Qwen2.5-72B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Qwen2.5-72B
68.2
Phi-4
70.5
Qwen2.5-72B
53.7
Phi-4
82.6
Qwen2.5-72B
84
Phi-4
80.6
Qwen2.5-72B is ahead overall, 72 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 82 and 56.1.
Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 68.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Phi-4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 82.6 versus 53.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 80.6. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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