Model comparison

Qwen1.5-14B vs StarCoder 2 3B

Qwen1.5-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#250); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.1

Rank #250 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 3B NVIDIA

35.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen1.5-14B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 3B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-14B and StarCoder 2 3B specifications
Qwen1.5-14BStarCoder 2 3B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)NVIDIA
Noometry Index32.135.8
Released2024-02-042024-02-22
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked177

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Qwen1.5-14B: 32.5 (#259), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Coding1138—
BigCodeBench Complete—21.4%
HumanEval+—27.4%

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 20.5 (#217), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts1113—
Epoch Capabilities Index—88.01
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 29.9 (#214), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Math1125—
GSM8K—21.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 29.3 (#230), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BStarCoder 2 3B
MMLU68.6%36.6%
LMArena Expert1094—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—34.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 30.8 (#257), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Non-English1095—
LMArena Chinese1147—
LMArena French1115—
LMArena German1043—
LMArena Japanese1019—
LMArena Russian1046—
LMArena Spanish1085—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 57.1 (#266), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1102—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#252), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Longer Query1113—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#270), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-14BStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Text1128—
LMArena Creative Writing1091—
LMArena Multi-Turn1110—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-14B better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Qwen1.5-14B has enough public results to be ranked (#250); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Qwen1.5-14B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.5 vs 32.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-14B and StarCoder 2 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen1.5-14B has 17 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.

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