Model comparison

Qwen1.5-110B vs StarCoder 2 15B

Qwen1.5-110B has enough public results to be ranked (#231); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

37.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen1.5-110B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.0 to 32.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 44.4% for Qwen1.5-110B and 38.4% for StarCoder 2 15B.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-110B and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
Qwen1.5-110BStarCoder 2 15B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)NVIDIA
Noometry Index33.637.5
Released2024-04-252024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked207

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads

Qwen1.5-110B: 32.4 (#260), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-110BStarCoder 2 15B
BigCodeBench Complete44.4%38.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct35%—
LMArena Coding1184—
HumanEval+—37.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen1.5-110B: 21.7 (#192), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-110BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Hard Prompts1168—
Epoch Capabilities Index—104.61
ForecastBench57.7—
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

Qwen1.5-110B: 31.1 (#199), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-110BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Math1185—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen1.5-110B: 30.7 (#217), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-110BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Expert1144—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%
MMLU—64.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen1.5-110B: 33.8 (#245), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-110BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Non-English1142—
LMArena Chinese1206—
LMArena French1150—
LMArena German1123—
LMArena Japanese1074—
LMArena Korean1044—
LMArena Russian1118—
LMArena Spanish1141—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen1.5-110B: 60.6 (#247), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-110BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Instruction Following1158—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen1.5-110B: 35.0 (#237), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-110BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Longer Query1157—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen1.5-110B: 38.1 (#250), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-110BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Text1175—
LMArena Creative Writing1148—
LMArena Multi-Turn1160—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-110B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Qwen1.5-110B has enough public results to be ranked (#231); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Qwen1.5-110B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-110B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen1.5-110B has 20 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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