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Claude Instant vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B

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Winner summary

Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in general.

Category leads
general·Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Hype vs Reality
Claude Instant
#38 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
#51 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
Claude Instant
n/a
no price
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
29.6 pts/$
$2.02/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Claude InstantQwen3.5 397B A17B
Dtbench
Qwen3.5 397B A17B leads by +69.5
Claude Instant
9.6
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
79.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude InstantQwen3.5 397B A17B
Dtbench
9.679.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Instant————
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3.5 397B A17B$0.55$3.50262K tokens (~131 books)$12.88