Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs phi-3-medium 14B
Claude 3 Opus and phi-3-medium 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Opus leads 24.5 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 46 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | 48.7% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 121.23 |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | 81.5% |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
Math phi-3-medium 14B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | 17.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | — |
Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 27.6% |
| MMLU | 84.6% | 78% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | — |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Claude 3 Opus and phi-3-medium 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Opus or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and phi-3-medium 14B share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.