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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Phi 4 Mini

Claude Opus 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 59.8 to -4.1.

Anthropic · Microsoft · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Opus 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 59.8 to -4.1, ranking #1 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Opus 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 59.8 and ranks #1 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Phi 4 Mini

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic
Phi 4 Mini
Microsoft
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
59.8
#1
-4.1
#351
Reasoning
57.9
#1
-4.2
#344
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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—
Input price
$4.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$20.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude Opus 5.5
Phi 4 Mini
Math
42.5#5
2.3#294
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

31 reported for Claude Opus 5.5 · 17 for Phi 4 Mini

No common benchmarks found

Claude Opus 5.5 and Phi 4 Minidon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Opus 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Opus 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Microsoft
Phi 4 Mini
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Tue Sep 22 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude Opus 5.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Phi 4 Mini does not.

Claude Opus 5.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude Opus 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Phi 4 Mini

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Opus 5.5 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.

Claude Opus 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Phi 4 Mini

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Opus 5.5 was released on 2026-09-22, while Phi 4 Mini was released on 2025-02-01.

Claude Opus 5.5 is 20 months newer than Phi 4 Mini.

Claude Opus 5.5

Sep 22, 2026

0 days ago

1.6yr newer
Phi 4 Mini

Feb 1, 2025

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Opus 5.5 has a knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while Phi 4 Mini has a cutoff of 2024-06-01.

Claude Opus 5.5 has more recent training data (up to 2026-06-01), making it potentially better informed about events through that date compared to Phi 4 Mini (2024-06-01).

Claude Opus 5.5

Jun 2026

2 yr newer
Phi 4 Mini

Jun 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Opus 5.5 and Phi 4 Mini side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Opus 5.5 vs Phi 4 Mini.

Which is better, Claude Opus 5.5 or Phi 4 Mini?

Claude Opus 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 59.8 to -4.1. Claude Opus 5.5 is made by Anthropic and Phi 4 Mini is made by Microsoft. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude Opus 5.5 compare to Phi 4 Mini in benchmarks?

Claude Opus 5.5 scores BenchCAD (with Python tool): 96.2%, Global-MMLU: 94.3%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 93.9%, MILU: 93.1%, ArXivMath: 91.2%. Phi 4 Mini scores GSM8k: 88.6%, ARC-C: 83.7%, BoolQ: 81.2%, OpenBookQA: 79.2%, PIQA: 77.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Opus 5.5 and Phi 4 Mini?

Claude Opus 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and Phi 4 Mini supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Opus 5.5 and Phi 4 Mini?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (59.8 vs -4.1), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs MIT). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Opus 5.5 and Phi 4 Mini?

Claude Opus 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and Phi 4 Mini is developed by Microsoft.

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