Claude 3 Sonnet vs Phi 4 Mini Comparison
Comparing Claude 3 Sonnet and Phi 4 Mini across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.
Performance Benchmarks
Comparative analysis across standard metrics
Claude 3 Sonnet outperforms in 8 benchmarks (ARC-C, BIG-Bench Hard, GPQA, GSM8k, HellaSwag, MGSM, MMLU, MMLU-Pro), while Phi 4 Mini is better at 1 benchmark (MATH).
Claude 3 Sonnet significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.
Arena Performance
Human preference votes
Pricing Analysis
Price comparison per million tokens
Cost data unavailable.
Context Window
Maximum input and output token capacity
Only Claude 3 Sonnet specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3 Sonnet specifies output context (200,000 tokens).
Input Capabilities
Supported data types and modalities
Claude 3 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs, whereas Phi 4 Mini does not.
Claude 3 Sonnet can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.
Claude 3 Sonnet
Phi 4 Mini
License
Usage and distribution terms
Claude 3 Sonnet is licensed under a proprietary license, while Phi 4 Mini 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 Sonnet was released on 2024-02-29, while Phi 4 Mini was released on 2025-02-01.
Phi 4 Mini is 11 months newer than Claude 3 Sonnet.
Feb 29, 2024
2.1 years ago
Feb 1, 2025
1.1 years ago
11mo newerKnowledge Cutoff
When training data ends
Phi 4 Mini has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-06-01, while Claude 3 Sonnet's cutoff date is not specified.
We can confirm Phi 4 Mini's training data extends to 2024-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude 3 Sonnet's cutoff date.
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Jun 2024
Outputs Comparison
Key Takeaways
Claude 3 Sonnet
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Phi 4 Mini
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Detailed Comparison
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