# Claude Instant vs phi-3-medium 14B

> phi-3-medium 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#306); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-phi-3-medium-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.7 |
| Rank | — | 306 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

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

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 121.23 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 91.6% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 78% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | 73.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |

## FAQ

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

phi-3-medium 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#306); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.