# Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Phi-4

> Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-7-sonnet-vs-phi-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 30

## Summary

- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 9 categories and Phi-4 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 37.5 to 20.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 13.8% for Phi-4.
- Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 31.2 |
| Rank | 164 | 279 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.07 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136)
- Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | 30.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1231 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.4% |
| CadEval | 54% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50)
- Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.8% |
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| BALROG | — | 11.6% |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277)
- Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | 47.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1220 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | 45.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 130.42 |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | 41.6% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153)
- Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 13.8% |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | 42% |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1246 |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | 64.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130)
- Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | 56.1% |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | 29.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1203 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
| MMLU | — | 84.8% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95)
- Phi-4: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179)
- Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1197 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1212 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1224 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 1158 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1151 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1209 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1234 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125)
- Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | 58.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1201 |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10)
- Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1217 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150)
- Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1217 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1182 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | 62.6% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1206 |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | 25.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Phi-4?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Phi-4 better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Phi-4 share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.