Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Phi-3.5-mini

Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#300); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 38.5% for Phi-3.5-mini.
  • Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
Claude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.336.4
Released2024-02-292024-08-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked465

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Category by category

Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%32.8%
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%38.5%
WeirdML19.2%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1246—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
PIQA—81%
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
BoolQ—78%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1258—
LMArena Chinese1248—
LMArena French1274—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1262—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#300); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Phi-3.5-mini share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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