# Claude Instant vs Qwen3-4B

> Qwen3-4B has enough public results to be ranked (#261); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-qwen3-4b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 31.5 |
| Rank | — | 261 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen3-4B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 35.7% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 38.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 52.2% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 52.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Qwen3-4B?

Qwen3-4B has enough public results to be ranked (#261); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen3-4B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.