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Claude Instant 1.2 vs Qwen-Max: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison

Claude Instant 1.2 vs Qwen-Max 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 Qwen-Max can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.

Author: Mirai Minds Research Team

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Claude Instant 1.2
to
Qwen-Max
Overview
Claude Instant 1.2 was released 17 months before Qwen-Max.
Claude Instant 1.2
Qwen-Max
Provider
The entity that provides this model.
Anthropic
Qwen
Input Context Window
The number of tokens supported by the input context window.
100K
tokens
30,720
tokens
Maximum Output Tokens
The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request.
Not specified.
8,192
tokens
Release Date
When the model was first released.
2023-08-09
2025-01-28
Leaderboard
Claude Instant 1.2
Qwen-Max
Rank
Unknown
Unknown
Arena Elo
Not specified.
Not specified.
95% CI
Not specified.
Not specified.
Votes
Not specified.
Not specified.
License
Not specified.
Not specified.
Knowledge Cutoff
Unknown
Unknown
Pricing
Claude Instant 1.2
Qwen-Max
Input
Cost of input data provided to the model.
$0.80
per million tokens
$1.60
per million tokens
Output
Cost of output tokens generated by the model.
$2.40
per million tokens
$6.40
per million tokens
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude Instant 1.2 and Qwen-Max Instruct.
Claude Instant 1.2
Qwen-Max
MMLU
Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.
73.4
(5-shot)
Source
Benchmark not available.
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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