Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs phi-3-medium 14B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.1

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.7 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 91.2% for Claude 3.7 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 3.7 Sonnet and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Claude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index39.429.1
Released2025-02-242024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
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Results tracked5813

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16121.18
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench61.8—
HellaSwag—82.4%
LiveBench76.1%—
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 591.2%17.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1336—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond79.7%27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1296—
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1302—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1268—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Russian1311—
LMArena Spanish1299—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1352—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 Sonnetphi-3-medium 14B
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-medium 14B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.1 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and phi-3-medium 14B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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