Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Claude 3 Opus and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 31.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 50.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 12.9% for Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct.
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.3 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 46 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | 20.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1101 |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | 15.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1100 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | 30.3% |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | 24% |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | 81.5% |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 58.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 77% |
Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | 17.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1067 |
| MMLU | 84.6% | 75.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 90.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 58.1% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1061 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1135 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1080 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 966 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 894 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1111 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1111 |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | 47.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1087 |
Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1088 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1068 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | 12.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?
Claude 3 Opus and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?
Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.