# Claude Instant vs GPT-6 Astra

> GPT-6 Astra has enough public results to be ranked (#1); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-gpt-6-astra
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Astra in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Astra leads 85.1 to 18.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 97.3% for GPT-6 Astra.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 70.3 |
| Rank | — | 1 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $10 |
| Output $/M | — | $50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 70.5 (#3)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 74.1% |
| FrontierCode | — | 53.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1792 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 65.5% |
| SciCode | — | 56.5% |
| WeirdML | — | 93.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1488 |
| MirrorCode | — | 46.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 2,951 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 52.3 (#3)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 64.7% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 20.8% |
| BALROG | — | 68.3% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 15,515 |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- GPT-6 Astra: 85.1 (#1)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 97.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 166.6 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 95% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 98.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 98.5% |
| CritPt | — | 31.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 72% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 76.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1464 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 84% |
| LMCA | — | 64.4% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 93.4 (#1)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 93.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 97.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 100% |
| ProofBench | — | 99% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1463 |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 2.9% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#1)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 95.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 54.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 75.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1486 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 55.1 (#3)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1280 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 49.7% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 80% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1468 |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 54.0 (#53)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1431 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1495 |
| LMArena French | — | 1467 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1412 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 76.6 (#37)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1454 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 44.7 (#57)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1460 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 75.7 (#7)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1443 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 2173 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1457 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than GPT-6 Astra?

GPT-6 Astra has enough public results to be ranked (#1); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and GPT-6 Astra share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Astra has 51.