Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Phi-2

Claude Sonnet 4 has enough public results to be ranked (#139); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.6

Rank #139 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 Sonnet 4 and Phi-2 specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Phi-2
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index40.6—
Released2025-05-222023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5811

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 44.0 (#70), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
LMArena Coding1414—
ALE-Bench655.35—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.3 (#29), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 23.0 (#169), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69107.62
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1372—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
ForecastBench60.2—
HellaSwag—53.6%
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.5 (#71), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
LMArena Math1375—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.6 (#99), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—
LMArena Expert1371—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 25.6 (#116), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.9 (#151), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
LMArena Non-English1333—
LMArena Chinese1351—
LMArena French1364—
LMArena German1331—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1293—
LMArena Russian1355—
LMArena Spanish1356—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.8 (#141), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
IFEval84%—
LMArena Instruction Following1375—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.6 (#254), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1398—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.3 (#127), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Phi-2
LMArena Text1351—
LMArena Creative Writing1345—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1376—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Phi-2?

Claude Sonnet 4 has enough public results to be ranked (#139); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Phi-2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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