Claude 3 Opus vs Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct Comparison

Comparing Claude 3 Opus and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

10 benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus outperforms in 10 benchmarks (ARC-C, BIG-Bench Hard, GPQA, GSM8k, HellaSwag, HumanEval, MATH, MGSM, MMLU, MMLU-Pro), while Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus
Input tokens$15.00
Output tokens$75.00
Best providerAnthropic
Microsoft
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3 Opus specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3 Opus specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
Microsoft
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs, whereas Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct does not.

Claude 3 Opus can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3 Opus

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3 Opus 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.

Claude 3 Opus

Proprietary

Closed source

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Opus was released on 2024-02-29, while Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct was released on 2024-08-23.

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct is 6 months newer than Claude 3 Opus.

Claude 3 Opus

Feb 29, 2024

2.0 years ago

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

Aug 23, 2024

1.6 years ago

5mo newer

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

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Larger context window (200,000 tokens)
Supports multimodal inputs
Higher ARC-C score (96.4% vs 91.0%)
Higher BIG-Bench Hard score (86.8% vs 79.1%)
Higher GPQA score (50.4% vs 36.8%)
Higher GSM8k score (95.0% vs 88.7%)
Higher HellaSwag score (95.4% vs 83.8%)
Higher HumanEval score (84.9% vs 70.7%)
Higher MATH score (60.1% vs 59.5%)
Higher MGSM score (90.7% vs 58.7%)
Higher MMLU score (86.8% vs 78.9%)
Higher MMLU-Pro score (68.5% vs 45.3%)
Has open weights

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus
Microsoft
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct