Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs phi-3-medium 14B

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 2 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 42.0 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 77.3% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Claude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index41.029.7
Released2025-08-052024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4813

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1479—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12121.23
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1443—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench62—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math phi-3-medium 14B leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
LMArena Math1431—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond77.3%27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
LMArena Expert1439—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1405—
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1435—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1455—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1419—
LMArena Creative Writing1412—
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1444—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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