Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Phi-3.5-mini

Claude 3.7 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#164); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 40.6 to 34.6.
  • Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index39.536.9
Released2025-02-242024-08-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked585

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—
PIQA—81%

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1337—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—
BoolQ—78%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1296—
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Russian1311—
LMArena Spanish1298—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1352—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1314—
LMArena Creative Writing1332—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1339—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#164); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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