Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 5 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 33.4 to 14.7.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct specifications
Claude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.233.0
Released2024-10-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4917

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding12861130
Aider Polyglot28%—
SciCode27.4%—
WeirdML30.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
BALROG19.3%—

Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12511127
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
DTBench56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15—
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Math12441173
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%—
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
MATH Level 546.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert12081108
GPQA Diamond38.1%—
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12381094
LMArena Chinese12291108
LMArena French12641110
LMArena German12371101
LMArena Japanese11751042
LMArena Korean1173954
LMArena Russian12531145
LMArena Spanish12611095

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12411113
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12611120

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text12551138
LMArena Creative Writing12331107
LMArena Multi-Turn12651088
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1146—
WildBench76%—
LiveBench Language35.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 32.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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