Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Phi-2

Claude 3 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#319); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Phi-2 specifications
Claude 3 SonnetPhi-2
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.0—
Released2024-02-292023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3011

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPhi-2
HumanEval+64%45.1%
MBPP+69.3%54.2%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
LMArena Coding1223—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPhi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7107.94
WinoGrande75.1%54.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts1197—
DTBench53.6%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
HellaSwag—53.6%

Math Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPhi-2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
LMArena Math1213—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPhi-2
MMLU75.9%58.4%
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
LMArena Expert1173—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPhi-2
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPhi-2
LMArena Non-English1205—
LMArena Chinese1189—
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPhi-2
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPhi-2
LMArena Longer Query1211—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetPhi-2
LMArena Text1218—
LMArena Creative Writing1186—
LMArena Multi-Turn1227—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Phi-2?

Claude 3 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#319); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Phi-2 share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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