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Claude Instant vs phi-3-mini 3.8B

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Winner summary

Claude Instant wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.

Category leads
knowledge·Claude Instant
Hype vs Reality
Claude Instant
#5 by perf·#10 by attention
DESERVED
phi-3-mini 3.8B
#34 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Claude Instant
no price
phi-3-mini 3.8B
no price
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Microsoft logo
Microsoft
$3.00T·Big Tech
Low risk
Head to head
Claude Instantphi-3-mini 3.8B
ARC AI2
Claude Instant leads by +1.9
AI2 Reasoning Challenge · tests grade-school level science knowledge with multiple-choice questions requiring reasoning beyond simple retrieval.
Claude Instant
81.7
phi-3-mini 3.8B
79.9
MMLU
Claude Instant leads by +6.1
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
Claude Instant
64.5
phi-3-mini 3.8B
58.4
TriviaQA
Claude Instant leads by +14.9
TriviaQA · reading comprehension benchmark with trivia questions, requiring models to find and reason over evidence from provided documents.
Claude Instant
78.9
phi-3-mini 3.8B
64.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Instantphi-3-mini 3.8B
ARC AI2
AI2 Reasoning Challenge · tests grade-school level science knowledge with multiple-choice questions requiring reasoning beyond simple retrieval.
81.779.9
MMLU
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
64.558.4
TriviaQA
TriviaQA · reading comprehension benchmark with trivia questions, requiring models to find and reason over evidence from provided documents.
78.964.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Instant
Microsoft logophi-3-mini 3.8B