# Claude Instant vs Qwen3.5-9B

> Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#235); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-qwen3-5-9b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-9B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 22.5 to 18.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 71.2% for Qwen3.5-9B.
- Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 33.3 |
| Rank | — | 235 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 71.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 139.45 |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B has enough public results to be ranked (#235); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen3.5-9B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.