# Claude 2 vs Claude Instant

> Claude 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#346); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-claude-instant
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and Claude Instant in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 51.9% for Claude 2 and 45.8% for Claude Instant.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 29.5 |
| Rank | 346 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | 50.6% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Claude Instant: 19.6

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 45.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 120.28 |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 78.5% | 73.4% |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | 78.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 86.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Claude Instant?

Claude 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#346); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Claude Instant share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Claude Instant has 7.