Model comparison
Claude Instant vs QwQ-32B
QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#159); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where QwQ-32B leads 23.7 to 19.6.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 39.8 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Reasoning QwQ-32B leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 137.6 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1325 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1324 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena French | — | 1336 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1297 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1308 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1288 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than QwQ-32B?
QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#159); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and QwQ-32B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.