Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.2 to 29.6.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 specifications
Claude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index43.131.3
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5615

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.8 (#279)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Coding14421093
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 20.8 (#231)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Hard Prompts13991087
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 33.0 (#208)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Math13901152
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 28.6 (#244)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Expert13861051
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 25.9 (#282)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Non-English13621013
LMArena Chinese13861033
LMArena German13911031
LMArena Japanese1331954
LMArena Korean1321880
LMArena Russian13921019
LMArena French1372—
LMArena Spanish1389—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 54.1 (#282)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Instruction Following14061058
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.7 (#277)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Longer Query14221042
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 29.6 (#294)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024
LMArena Text13771080
LMArena Creative Writing13871045
LMArena Multi-Turn13961049
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 31.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has 15.

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