# Claude 3 Sonnet vs Claude Instant

> Claude 3 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#311); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Claude Instant in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 53.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 45.8% for Claude Instant.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 28.8 |
| Rank | 311 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 64% | 50.6% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232)
- Claude Instant: 18.8

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 53.6% | 45.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.69 | 120.2 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 75.9% | 73.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 86.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 78.9% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1188 | — |
| LMArena French | 1228 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1200 | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233)
- Claude Instant: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Claude Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |

## FAQ

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

Claude 3 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#311); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Claude Instant has 7.