# Phi-4-reasoning vs QwQ-32B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Phi-4-reasoning and QwQ-32B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/phi-4-reasoning-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick QwQ-32B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4-reasoning only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- QwQ-32B leads overall 62 to 49.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is AIME 2025 in Mathematics, with scores of 62.9% and 69.5%.
- QwQ-32B also has the larger context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Phi-4-reasoning | QwQ-32B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 32K | 131K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-4-reasoning public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-4-reasoning | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v3 | Coming soon | 66.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-4-reasoning public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-4-reasoning | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench | 53.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v5 | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-4-reasoning public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-4-reasoning | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 65.8% | 65.6% | Phi-4-reasoning |
| MMLU-Pro | 74.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-4-reasoning public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-4-reasoning | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-4-reasoning public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-4-reasoning | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 83.4% | 83.9% | QwQ-32B |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Phi-4-reasoning public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Phi-4-reasoning | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 75.3% | 79.5% | QwQ-32B |
| AIME 2025 | 62.9% | 69.5% | QwQ-32B |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 98% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Phi-4-reasoning or QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Phi-4-reasoning cover on BenchLM?

Phi-4-reasoning currently has 6 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does QwQ-32B cover on BenchLM?

QwQ-32B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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