claude-instant-1.2: benchmark scores, price and ranking
claude-instant-1.2 from Anthropic ranks #556 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (45.8), 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
- #556 of 743 (score 45.8)
Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, claude-instant-1.2 is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.
claude-instant-1.2 benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | #141 of 146 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-13 |
About claude-instant-1.2
claude-instant-1.2 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-1.2 stands
On our aggregate score, claude-instant-1.2 is #556 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 45.8; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 4.2 points below the typical model. That beats 25% of the ranked field. Among the 70 ranked Anthropic models it is #59. The next one up is claude-opus-4-1-20250805_32K at 46.0. The next one down is Claude 3 Opus at 45.7.
claude-instant-1.2, benchmark by benchmark
DTBench is a weak spot. claude-instant-1.2 scores 45.8%, #141 of 146, behind 96% of the models measured. The leader, Claude Opus 5.5 (max), reaches 98.9%. It covers dynamic tool-use benchmark. The board median is 68.8%, so claude-instant-1.2 is 23.0 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-2.1 on 2023-11-21, at 40.6.
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.
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