Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 54.4 to 27.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Math: 79% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 15.7% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct.
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 27.9 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 58 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | 15.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1093 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | 26.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1072 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | 34.7% |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | 22.4% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |
Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 79% | 15.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1111 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1045 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1021 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1076 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1085 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | 39.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1053 |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1044 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1018 |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | 9.2% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.