Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct are closely matched at 5.4 and 2.0 on the LLM Stats Score.
Anthropic · Microsoft · Updated for 2026
Which is better?
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct are closely matched on the overall LLM Stats Score at 5.4 and 2.0.
In the 5 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Claude 3.5 Haiku wins 5; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.
Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.
Choose Claude 3.5 Haiku
- your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
- you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 5 of 5 exact shared results
- you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2024
Choose Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
- you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune
At a glance
The differences that matter most.
Capability indexes
Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks
Individual benchmarks
9 reported for Claude 3.5 Haiku · 31 for Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms in 5 benchmarks (GPQA, HumanEval, MATH, MGSM, MMLU-Pro), while Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.
Claude 3.5 Haiku significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.
Human preference
Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores
Context Window
Maximum input and output token capacity
Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies output context (200,000 tokens).
License
Usage and distribution terms
Claude 3.5 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct uses MIT.
License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.
Proprietary
Closed source
MIT
Open weights
Release Timeline
When each model was launched
Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct was released on 2024-08-23.
Claude 3.5 Haiku is 2 months newer than Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct.
Oct 22, 2024
1.9 years ago
2mo newerAug 23, 2024
2.0 years ago
Knowledge Cutoff
When training data ends
Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.
Unable to compare the recency of their training data.
Outputs Comparison
Judge for yourself.
Run your own prompts against Claude 3.5 Haiku and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.
FAQ
Common questions about Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct.