Claude Instant 1.2vsQwen3.5-Plus
Claude Instant 1.2 | Qwen3.5-Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view. | 100k | 1M |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins · base tier | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $0.40 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $2.40 |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
HumanEvalFunction synthesis — 164 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% | — |
GSM8KGrade-school math — Grade-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 | Feb 16 2026 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Frequently asked questions
Claude Instant 1.2 and Qwen3.5-Plus don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Qwen3.5-Plus has a verified first-party API price: $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude Instant 1.2. Claude Instant 1.2 shipped 922 days before Qwen3.5-Plus, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Context windows are 100k (Claude Instant 1.2) vs 1M (Qwen3.5-Plus).
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Instant 1.2 and Qwen3.5-Plus don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Claude Instant 1.2 was released by Anthropic on Aug 9 2023.
Qwen3.5-Plus was released by Qwen on Feb 16 2026.
Only Qwen3.5-Plus has a verified first-party API price: $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude Instant 1.2. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.
Claude Instant 1.2 has a 100k context window; Qwen3.5-Plus has 1M.