Model comparison

Qwen-14B vs StarCoder 2 7B

Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#275); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 7B NVIDIA

37.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen-14B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.8 to 31.2.

Side by side

Qwen-14B and StarCoder 2 7B specifications
Qwen-14BStarCoder 2 7B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)NVIDIA
Noometry Index31.437.0
Released2023-09-242024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked187

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 7B leads

Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen-14BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Coding1071—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.7%
HumanEval+—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen-14BStarCoder 2 7B
Epoch Capabilities Index113.0393.56
LMArena Hard Prompts1027—
BIG-Bench Hard55%—
LAMBADA71.1%—
PIQA79.9%—
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen-14BStarCoder 2 7B
GSM8K61.3%32.7%
LMArena Math1068—

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen-14B: —, StarCoder 2 7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen-14BStarCoder 2 7B
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.4%38.7%
MMLU66.3%38.8%
BoolQ86.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen-14BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Non-English1041—
LMArena Chinese1077—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen-14BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Instruction Following1031—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen-14BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Longer Query1028—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen-14BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Text1051—
LMArena Creative Writing1028—
LMArena Multi-Turn1022—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen-14B better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Qwen-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#275); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Qwen-14B or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen-14B and StarCoder 2 7B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen-14B has 18 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.

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