Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Qwen3 32B
Qwen3 32B has enough public results to be ranked (#172); 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 Qwen3 32B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 67.5% for Qwen3 32B.
- Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 39.2 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1358 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude Instant: 19.6, Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 67.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 138.51 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1334 |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1399 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1305 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1331 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Qwen3 32B?
Qwen3 32B has enough public results to be ranked (#172); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen3 32B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.