Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Qwen3-4B
Qwen3-4B has enough public results to be ranked (#264); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2025-04-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 35.7% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude Instant: 19.6, Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 38.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 52.2% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 52.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Qwen3-4B?
Qwen3-4B has enough public results to be ranked (#264); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen3-4B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.