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Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Claude Instant

Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#310); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Claude Instant Anthropic

29.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Instant in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 14.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 61.6% for Claude 3 Opus and 45.8% for Claude Instant.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusClaude Instant
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index29.529.5
Released2024-02-292023-08-09
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked467

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Claude Instant: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
HumanEval+77.4%50.6%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Claude Instant: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Claude Instant leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Claude Instant: 19.6

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
DTBench61.6%45.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91120.28
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1245—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Claude Instant: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—
GSM8K—86.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Claude Instant: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
MMLU84.6%73.4%
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—86.3%
TriviaQA—78.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Claude Instant: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Claude Instant: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
LMArena Non-English1258—
LMArena Chinese1248—
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Claude Instant: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Claude Instant: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Claude Instant: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusClaude Instant
LMArena Text1262—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Claude Instant?

Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#310); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Claude Instant share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Claude Instant has 7.

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