# Claude 3 Opus vs Claude Instant

> Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#310); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-opus-vs-claude-instant
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Instant in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 14.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 61.6% for Claude 3 Opus and 45.8% for Claude Instant.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.5 |
| Rank | 310 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | 50.6% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324)
- Claude Instant: 19.6

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 61.6% | 45.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 120.28 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 84.6% | 73.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 86.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 78.9% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | — |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Opus better than Claude Instant?

Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#310); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Claude Instant share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Claude Instant has 7.