Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Phi-3.5-mini-instruct Comparison

Comparing Claude 3.5 Haiku and Phi-3.5-mini-instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

5 benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms in 5 benchmarks (GPQA, HumanEval, MATH, MGSM, MMLU-Pro), while Phi-3.5-mini-instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct costs less

For input processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($0.80/1M tokens) is 8.0x more expensive than Phi-3.5-mini-instruct ($0.10/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($4.00/1M tokens) is 40.0x more expensive than Phi-3.5-mini-instruct ($0.10/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Claude 3.5 Haiku is more expensive than Phi-3.5-mini-instruct.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input tokens$0.80

Output tokens$4.00

Best providerAWS Bedrock

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Input tokens$0.10

Output tokens$0.10

Best providerAzure

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Claude 3.5 Haiku accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to Phi-3.5-mini-instruct's 128,000 tokens. Claude 3.5 Haiku can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while Phi-3.5-mini-instruct is limited to 128,000 tokens.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.5 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while Phi-3.5-mini-instruct uses MIT.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while Phi-3.5-mini-instruct was released on 2024-08-23.

Claude 3.5 Haiku is 2 months newer than Phi-3.5-mini-instruct.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.4 years ago

2mo newer

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Aug 23, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Provider Availability

Claude 3.5 Haiku is available from Bedrock, Google, Anthropic. Phi-3.5-mini-instruct is available from Azure. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.