# Claude Instant vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

> Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-qwen2-5-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 14.8.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.0 |
| Rank | — | 320 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.17 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 47.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 118.51 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.