Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Phi-2

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#231); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Phi-2 specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index34.6—
Released2024-06-202023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6011

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
HumanEval+81.7%45.1%
MBPP+74.3%54.2%
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1342—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55107.94
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
ForecastBench60.7—
HellaSwag—53.6%
LiveBench59%—
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1307—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
MMLU87.3%58.4%
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1272—
LMArena French1305—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1306—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetPhi-2
LMArena Text1298—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1326—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Phi-2?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#231); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Phi-2 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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