Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.6 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 73.7 to 27.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 17% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 0% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct.
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 58.3 | 27.4 |
| Released | 2026-02-04 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $25 | — |
| Results tracked | 68 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1535 | 1093 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.7% | — |
| FrontierCode | 26.6% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 75.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1546 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 72% | — |
| GSO | 41.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 78% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| ALE-Bench | 996.5 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.47 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 79.8% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 46.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 4.2% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 27.3% | — |
| Cybench | 93% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 55.3% | — |
| GBAEval | 44.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1253 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 78.9% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 8,018 | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 17% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1527 | 1072 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 69.2% | — |
| SimpleBench | 67.6% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 83.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 92.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 94% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 7.6% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 80.6% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 12.7% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 25% | — |
| DTBench | 91.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| LMCA | 55.8% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |
Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1517 | 1111 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 66% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 26.8% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 78.5% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 94.4% | — |
| ProofBench | 50% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 40.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 22.9% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1546 | 1045 |
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 34.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 47% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12.2% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1316 | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 28.3% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1507 | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1490 | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1551 | 1021 |
| LMArena French | 1513 | 1075 |
| LMArena German | 1504 | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1484 | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | 1465 | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | 1497 | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1512 | 1084 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1523 | 1053 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1520 | 1044 |
| CL-bench | 20.7% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 17% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1504 | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1506 | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1514 | 1018 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1809 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1223 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?
Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.