Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Phi-3.5-mini
Claude 3 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#311); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.0 to 29.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet 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 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 36.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-08-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 32.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 38.5% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.69 | — |
| PIQA | — | 81% |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.2% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 78% |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1188 | — |
| LMArena French | 1228 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1200 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Phi-3.5-mini?
Claude 3 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#311); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?
Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Phi-3.5-mini share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.