# Claude Instant vs Llama 2-13B

> Llama 2-13B has enough public results to be ranked (#309); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-llama-2-13b
- 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 Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 12.8.
- Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.6 |
| Rank | — | 309 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1062 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 42.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 106.17 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1051 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 58.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 80.7% |
| LAMBADA | — | 76.5% |
| PIQA | — | 80.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.8% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 36.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1065 |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 60.3% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 55.6% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | 79.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1030 |
| BoolQ | — | 82.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 57% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | — | 55.8% |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1001 |
| LMArena French | — | 1044 |
| LMArena German | — | 1009 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 894 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 953 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1055 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1087 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1045 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1064 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1047 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1050 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Llama 2-13B?

Llama 2-13B has enough public results to be ranked (#309); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Llama 2-13B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.