Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs phi-3-medium 14B

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.1

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4 leads 43.9 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 85% for Claude Opus 4 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 Opus 4 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Claude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index42.929.1
Released2025-05-222024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5613

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1442—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67121.18
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1399—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench61.1—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 585%17.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
LMArena Math1391—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond76.3%27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
LMArena Expert1384—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1362—
LMArena Chinese1386—
LMArena French1370—
LMArena German1391—
LMArena Japanese1332—
LMArena Korean1318—
LMArena Russian1392—
LMArena Spanish1388—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
IFEval91.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1406—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1422—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1377—
LMArena Creative Writing1386—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1396—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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