Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Phi-4 Mini
Phi-4 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi-4 Mini leads 25.3 to 21.1.
- Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.075 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 10.8% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Phi-4 Mini leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 23.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | — |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Phi-4 Mini?
Phi-4 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?
Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Phi-4 Mini share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.