Model comparison

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.3

Rank #155 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.4

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Haiku 4.5 leads 58.1 to 27.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 8% for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 0% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index39.327.4
Released2025-10-152024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$1—
Output $ / M tokens$5—
Results tracked5335

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.9 (#71), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding14541093
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66.6%—
LMArena WebDev1330—
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%—
SciCode43.3%—
WeirdML45.4%—
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
ALE-Bench653.48—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.5 (#50), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

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

Reasoning Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#310), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Chess Puzzles8%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14201072
ARC-AGI-24%—
NYT Connections (extended)14.3%—
ARC-AGI-147.7%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
DTBench73.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
LMCA30.9%—
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.42—
ForecastBench61.4—
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.0 (#69), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math13951111
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.7%—
Omni-MATH56.1%—
LiveBench Math—15.7%
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: 37.6 (#146), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert14431045
GPQA Diamond71.2%—
SimpleQA Verified13.2%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.8%—
GPQA (HELM)60.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 27.0 (#111), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

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

Multilingual Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 50.1 (#124), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English13761021
LMArena Chinese14151021
LMArena French14081075
LMArena German13771044
LMArena Japanese1339935
LMArena Korean1346905
LMArena Russian13801022
LMArena Spanish14201084

Instruction Following Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.6 (#144), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14141053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%
IFEval80.1%—

Long Context Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#86), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14271044

Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 58.1 (#119), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text13961073
LMArena Creative Writing13711037
LMArena Multi-Turn14091018
WildBench83.9%—
EQ-Bench 41064—
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

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

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.9 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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