Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs phi-3-medium 14B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 28.6 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 56.9% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Claude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index34.629.7
Released2024-06-202024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6013

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%48.7%
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1342—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55121.23
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench60.7—
HellaSwag—82.4%
LiveBench59%—
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math phi-3-medium 14B leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 556.9%17.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1307—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond55.3%27.6%
MMLU87.3%78%
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
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-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
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-3-medium 14B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and phi-3-medium 14B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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