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Claude 2 vs Claude Instant 1.2: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison

Claude 2 vs Claude Instant 1.2 compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.

Verdict

Claude Instant 1.2 has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 2 can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.

Author: Mirai Minds Research Team

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Claude 2
to
Claude Instant 1.2
Overview
Claude 2 was released the same time Claude Instant 1.2.
Claude 2
Claude Instant 1.2
Provider
The entity that provides this model.
Anthropic
Anthropic
Input Context Window
The number of tokens supported by the input context window.
100K
tokens
100K
tokens
Maximum Output Tokens
The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request.
Not specified.
Not specified.
Release Date
When the model was first released.
2023-07-11
2023-08-09
Leaderboard
Claude 2
Claude Instant 1.2
Rank
22
Unknown
Arena Elo
1132
Not specified.
95% CI
+4/-5
Not specified.
Votes
13413
Not specified.
License
Proprietary
Not specified.
Knowledge Cutoff
Unknown
Unknown
Pricing
Claude 2
Claude Instant 1.2
Input
Cost of input data provided to the model.
$8.00
per million tokens
$0.80
per million tokens
Output
Cost of output tokens generated by the model.
$24.00
per million tokens
$2.40
per million tokens
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 2 and Claude Instant 1.2 Instruct.
Claude 2
Claude Instant 1.2
MMLU
Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.
78.5
(5-shot)
Source
73.4
(5-shot)
Source
MMMU
A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark.
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.
HellaSwag
A challenging sentence completion benchmark.
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.

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