Model comparison
Qwen Max vs StarCoder 2 15B
Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#226); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)
NVIDIASummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.0 to 30.3.
- StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 15B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 34.4 | 37.5 |
| Released | 2024-04-03 | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 33K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.60 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $6.40 | — |
| Results tracked | 23 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads
Qwen Max: 30.3 (#288), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0
| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 21.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1288 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen Max: 24.1 (#154), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1270 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 104.61 |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |
Math Not comparable
Qwen Max: 21.0 (#272), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.1% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1275 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 67.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen Max: 30.3 (#222), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1248 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen Max: 42.0 (#197), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1254 | — |
| LMArena French | 1329 | — |
| LMArena German | 1254 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1141 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1274 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen Max: 66.7 (#203), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1262 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen Max: 39.4 (#175), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen Max: 48.0 (#200), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1277 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen Max better than StarCoder 2 15B?
Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#226); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Qwen Max or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 30.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen Max and StarCoder 2 15B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen Max has 23 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.