Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Qwen2-72B
Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#300); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2-72B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen2-72B leads 23.2 to 19.6.
- Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-06-07 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 11.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 38.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1196 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 1.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.9% |
Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 125.28 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1235 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.1% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 82.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1171 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1176 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1240 |
| LMArena French | — | 1170 |
| LMArena German | — | 1151 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1169 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1169 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1181 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1192 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1203 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1181 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1196 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Qwen2-72B?
Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#300); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen2-72B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.