# Claude Instant vs Qwen-14B

> Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#273); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-qwen-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-14B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- Qwen-14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 30.8 |
| Rank | — | 273 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1072 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 112.8 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1027 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 61.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1068 |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 84.4% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 66.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1042 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1077 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1031 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1029 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1022 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Qwen-14B?

Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#273); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen-14B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.