Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Phi 4 Comparison
Comparing Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Phi 4 across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.
Performance Benchmarks
Comparative analysis across standard metrics
Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms in 6 benchmarks (DROP, GPQA, HumanEval, MGSM, MMLU, MMLU-Pro), while Phi 4 is better at 1 benchmark (MATH).
Claude 3.5 Sonnet significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.
Arena Performance
Human preference votes
Pricing Analysis
Price comparison per million tokens
For input processing, Claude 3.5 Sonnet ($3.00/1M tokens) is 42.9x more expensive than Phi 4 ($0.07/1M tokens).
For output processing, Claude 3.5 Sonnet ($15.00/1M tokens) is 107.1x more expensive than Phi 4 ($0.14/1M tokens).
In conclusion, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is more expensive than Phi 4.*
* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens
Context Window
Maximum input and output token capacity
Claude 3.5 Sonnet accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to Phi 4's 16,000 tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while Phi 4 is limited to 16,000 tokens.
Input Capabilities
Supported data types and modalities
Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs, whereas Phi 4 does not.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Phi 4
License
Usage and distribution terms
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is licensed under a proprietary license, while Phi 4 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 Sonnet was released on 2024-10-22, while Phi 4 was released on 2024-12-12.
Phi 4 is 2 months newer than Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Oct 22, 2024
1.4 years ago
Dec 12, 2024
1.3 years ago
1mo newerKnowledge Cutoff
When training data ends
Phi 4 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-06-01, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet's cutoff date is not specified.
We can confirm Phi 4's training data extends to 2024-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude 3.5 Sonnet's cutoff date.
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Jun 2024
Provider Availability
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available from Anthropic, Bedrock, Google. Phi 4 is available from DeepInfra. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Phi 4
Outputs Comparison
Key Takeaways
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
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Phi 4
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Detailed Comparison
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