Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Qwen-14B
Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#275); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-14B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Qwen-14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2023-09-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1071 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude Instant: 19.6, Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 113.03 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1027 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 61.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1068 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen-14B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 84.4% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 66.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1041 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1077 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1031 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1028 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1022 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Qwen-14B?
Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#275); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen-14B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.