Model comparison

Claude 2.1 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude 2.1 Anthropic

25.2

Rank #345 Reported

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads 26.6 to 10.2.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 2.1 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Claude 2.1Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index25.227.9
Released2023-11-212024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked735

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2.1Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
WeirdML7.1%—
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
LMArena Coding—1093
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads

Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2.1Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1072
DTBench51%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index119.27—
ForecastBench54.2—
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2.1Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.9%—
LiveBench Math—15.7%
LMArena Math—1111

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2.1Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
MMLU73.5%68.8%
GPQA Diamond33%—
LMArena Expert—1045
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 2.1: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2.1Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1021
LMArena Chinese—1021
LMArena French—1076
LMArena German—1044
LMArena Japanese—935
LMArena Korean—905
LMArena Russian—1022
LMArena Spanish—1085

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 2.1: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2.1Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%
LMArena Instruction Following—1053

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 2.1: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2.1Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1044

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 2.1: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2.1Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text—1073
LMArena Creative Writing—1037
LMArena Multi-Turn—1018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 2.1 better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 2.1 or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (26.2 vs 26.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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