# Claude Instant vs GPT-4

> GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#316); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-gpt-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 62.7% for GPT-4.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.1 |
| Rank | — | 316 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $30 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-4: 31.6 (#283)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 79.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 12.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1254 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-4: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.1% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- GPT-4: 17.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 62.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 125.89 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1241 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMCA | — | 17.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 75.1% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.8 |
| HellaSwag | — | 95.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 87.5% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-4: 10.8 (#309)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 92% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 23% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-4: 18.4 (#282)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 86.4% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | 84.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1211 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-4: 40.6 (#215)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1246 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1242 |
| LMArena French | — | 1283 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1261 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-4: 65.3 (#222)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1241 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-4: 37.7 (#212)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1244 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-4: 34.9 (#268)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1244 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 752 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1257 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than GPT-4?

GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#316); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and GPT-4 share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.