Claude Instant 1.2vsQwen2.5
Claude Instant 1.2 | Qwen2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 72B |
Context window | 100k | 128k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Function synthesis HumanEval164 small Python problems: the AI is given a function's description and has to write the working function. This was the coding benchmark of the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 era, before the field moved to fixing real bugs in real repositories. Higher is better. | 58.7% | — |
Grade-school math GSM8KGrade-school maths word problems that take a few steps of arithmetic to work through. It separated the models of 2022 and 2023 sharply, then saturated. One caveat on the historical numbers: OpenAI included part of the GSM8K training set in GPT-4's pre-training mix, so GPT-4's score is not a clean few-shot result. Higher is better. | 86.7% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Release date | Aug 9 2023 | Sep 19 2024 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
Which is better: Claude Instant 1.2 or Qwen2.5?
Claude Instant 1.2 and Qwen2.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude Instant 1.2 shipped 407 days before Qwen2.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Context windows are 100k (Claude Instant 1.2) vs 128k (Qwen2.5). Claude Instant 1.2 is proprietary, while Qwen2.5 is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Instant 1.2 and Qwen2.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude Instant 1.2 was released by Anthropic on Aug 9 2023.
Qwen2.5 was released by Qwen on Sep 19 2024.
Claude Instant 1.2 has a 100k context window; Qwen2.5 has 128k.
Claude Instant 1.2 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Qwen2.5 is an open weight model released by Qwen.