Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs phi-3-medium 14B

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 56.5 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 86% for Claude Opus 4.5 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 4.5 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Claude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index50.529.7
Released2025-11-012024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6913

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1504—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09121.23
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1476—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench60.7—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1463—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond86%27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
LMArena Expert1487—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1438—
LMArena Chinese1470—
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1449—
LMArena Japanese1416—
LMArena Korean1424—
LMArena Russian1447—
LMArena Spanish1458—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1478—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
CL-bench21.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1480—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1451—
LMArena Creative Writing1445—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—
LMArena Multi-Turn1466—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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