Model comparison

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.5

Rank #165 Confirmed

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Haiku 4.5 leads 57.9 to 34.1.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index39.533.0
Released2025-10-15—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$1—
Output $ / M tokens$5—
Results tracked5317

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.0 (#78), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding14531130
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66.6%—
LMArena WebDev1330—
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%—
SciCode43.3%—
WeirdML45.4%—
ALE-Bench653.48—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.6 (#52), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Terminal-Bench35.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard68.7%—
DeepResearch Bench45.5%—
BALROG31.2%—
ExploitBench13.7%—
Vending-Bench 2458.89—

Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#320), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14201127
ARC-AGI-24%—
NYT Connections (extended)14.3%—
ARC-AGI-147.7%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles8%—
DTBench73.6%—
LMCA30.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.41—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.9 (#78), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Math13961173
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.7%—
Omni-MATH56.1%—
MATH Level 596.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.7 (#153), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert14421108
GPQA Diamond71.2%—
SimpleQA Verified13.2%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.8%—
GPQA (HELM)60.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 26.8 (#118), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1420—

Multilingual Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 49.9 (#129), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English13771094
LMArena Chinese14171108
LMArena French14081110
LMArena German13751101
LMArena Japanese13391042
LMArena Korean1347954
LMArena Russian13811145
LMArena Spanish14201095

Instruction Following Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.4 (#149), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14141113
IFEval80.1%—

Long Context Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#92), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14271120

Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 57.9 (#123), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text13961138
LMArena Creative Writing13721107
LMArena Multi-Turn14091088
WildBench83.9%—
EQ-Bench 41064—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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