# Claude 2 vs phi-3-medium 14B

> phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-phi-3-medium-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where phi-3-medium 14B leads 27.3 to 9.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 34.7% for Claude 2 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 29.7 |
| Rank | 346 | 306 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 121.23 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 17.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 27.6% |
| MMLU | 78.5% | 78% |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | 73.9% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.