Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Phi-2

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #9 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Phi-2 specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Phi-2
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index60.7—
Released2026-05-282023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6511

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-2
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
LMArena Coding1491—
ALE-Bench1,564—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#10), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-2
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: 64.6 (#14), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index158.3107.62
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 Prompts1481—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
Bench to the Future 30.14—
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
ForecastBench59.9—
HellaSwag—53.6%
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11), Phi-2: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-2
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1501—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-2
LMArena Vision1295—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-2
LMArena Non-English1450—
LMArena Chinese1509—
LMArena French1482—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1476—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-2
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-2
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Phi-2
LMArena Text1460—
LMArena Creative Writing1453—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Phi-2?

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Phi-2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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