Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#235); 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 Qwen3.5-9B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 22.5 to 18.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 71.2% for Qwen3.5-9B.
- Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads
Claude Instant: 18.8, Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 71.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 139.45 |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Qwen3.5-9B?
Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#235); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen3.5-9B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.