Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Phi-4 Mini

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.4

Rank #280 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.7 to 24.8.
  • Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Phi-4 Mini specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 Mini
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index39.430.4
Released2025-02-242024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.075
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked583

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), Phi-4 Mini: 27.6 (#312)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 Mini
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
SciCode—10.8%
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), Phi-4 Mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 Mini
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), Phi-4 Mini: 21.7 (#190)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 Mini
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), Phi-4 Mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1336—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), Phi-4 Mini: 24.8 (#261)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 Mini
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.5%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 Mini
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-4 Mini: —

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

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), Phi-4 Mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), Phi-4 Mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetPhi-4 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-4 Mini?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.1 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Phi-4 Mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.

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