Claude Instant: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Claude Instant from Anthropic is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Anthropic
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2023-08-09 (source: epoch)
Aggregate rank: Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Claude Instant is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Claude Instant benchmark results

Claude Instant benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Epoch ECI	120	#126 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About Claude Instant

Claude Instant is a frontier model from Anthropic. It was released on 2023-08-09, according to Epoch AI. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Claude Instant stands

Claude Instant has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.

Claude Instant, benchmark by benchmark

Claude Instant lands below the middle on Epoch ECI: 120, #126 of 204, with 61% of the field scoring higher. Qwen 3.8 Max leads at 156; the closest result above is Claude 3 Sonnet at 121. It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Claude Instant is 7 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Release history

The Anthropic model released before it was claude-2.0 on 2023-07-11, which scores 42.2. The next one was claude-instant-1.2 on 2023-08-09, at 45.8.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.