# Claude Instant vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

> Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#291); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-qwen2-5-32b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 29.7 |
| Rank | — | 291 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.3% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 128.52 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 56.1% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 46.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#291); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.