Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 18.8 to 14.3.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 28.6 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 18.8, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 47.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 118.44 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.