Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#35); 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 Qwen3.7 Max in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.7 Max leads 48.4 to 18.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 92.3% for Qwen3.7 Max.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 51.4 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2026-05-19 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 50.2 (#43)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 77.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1515 |
| SciCode | — | 48.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1498 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,189 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 21.8 (#129)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| GBAEval | — | 0.4% |
Reasoning Qwen3.7 Max leads
Claude Instant: 18.8, Qwen3.7 Max: 48.4 (#36)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 92.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 153.74 |
| SimpleBench | — | 70.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 85.1% |
| CritPt | — | 13.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 19% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 9.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1483 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 32% |
| LMCA | — | 44% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 62.3 (#26)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 64.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 34.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 95.6% |
| ProofBench | — | 26% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1488 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 61.7 (#24)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 90.9% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 55.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1488 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 57.1 (#13)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1475 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1533 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1482 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 76.9 (#34)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1460 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 45.4 (#34)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1484 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 65.2 (#52)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1450 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1110 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1482 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Qwen3.7 Max?
Qwen3.7 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#35); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen3.7 Max share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Max has 33.