Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Qwen3.6 Plus has enough public results to be ranked (#54); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 28.5 to 18.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 81.9% for Qwen3.6 Plus.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 47.3 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2026-03-31 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $3 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.6 (#125)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 57.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1461 |
| SciCode | — | 40.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1467 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 670.15 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,115 |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Claude Instant: 18.8, Qwen3.6 Plus: 28.5 (#89)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 81.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 147.67 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 60.3% |
| CritPt | — | 2.9% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 17% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 59.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1449 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMCA | — | 33.1% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: 50.6 (#44)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 38.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 93.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1450 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 26.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 8.3% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#40)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 88.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 44.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1456 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.5 (#66)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1424 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1478 |
| LMArena French | — | 1454 |
| LMArena German | — | 1451 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1389 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1381 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1432 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.2 (#70)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1425 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.1 (#48)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 20.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1440 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.4 (#78)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1405 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1438 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Qwen3.6 Plus?
Qwen3.6 Plus has enough public results to be ranked (#54); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Qwen3.6 Plus share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.