Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Phi-1.5

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#13); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Phi-1.5 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Phi-1.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Phi-1.5 specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index60.7—
Released2026-05-282023-09-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked657

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Phi-1.5: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
LMArena Coding1490—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Phi-1.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Phi-1.5: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
Epoch Capabilities Index158.2191.53
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1482—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—
HellaSwag—47.6%
WinoGrande—73.4%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Phi-1.5: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Phi-1.5: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1502—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—44.4%
BoolQ—75.8%
MMLU—37.6%
OpenBookQA—37.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Phi-1.5: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Phi-1.5: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
LMArena Non-English1450—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1481—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1474—
LMArena Spanish1466—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Phi-1.5: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Phi-1.5: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
LMArena Longer Query1483—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Phi-1.5: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-1.5
LMArena Text1461—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Phi-1.5?

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#13); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Phi-1.5 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Phi-1.5 has 7.

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