Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Claude Instant

Claude 3.7 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#164); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Claude Instant Anthropic

29.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Instant in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Instant specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index39.529.5
Released2025-02-242023-08-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked587

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Claude Instant: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
CadEval54%—
HumanEval+—50.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Claude Instant: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Claude Instant: 19.6

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16120.28
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
DTBench—45.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Claude Instant: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1337—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
GSM8K—86.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Claude Instant: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—86.3%
MMLU—73.4%
TriviaQA—78.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Claude Instant: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Claude Instant: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
LMArena Non-English1296—
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Russian1311—
LMArena Spanish1298—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Claude Instant: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1352—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Claude Instant: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Claude Instant: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetClaude Instant
LMArena Text1314—
LMArena Creative Writing1332—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1339—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Claude Instant?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#164); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Instant share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Claude Instant has 7.

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