# Claude Instant vs Qwen1.5-7B

> Qwen1.5-7B 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-qwen1-5-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 31.4 |
| Rank | — | 273 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1107 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1065 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1080 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 62.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1055 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1006 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1058 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1090 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1035 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Qwen1.5-7B 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 Qwen1.5-7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.