Model comparison

Qwen1.5-32B vs Qwen1.5-7B

Qwen1.5-32B and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen1.5-32B scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen1.5-7B leads 28.7 to 13.5.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-32B and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Qwen1.5-32BQwen1.5-7B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.531.4
Released2024-02-042024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2113

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding11551107
BigCodeBench Instruct32.3%—
BigCodeBench Complete42%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11301065

Math Qwen1.5-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math11551080

Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert11261055
MMLU74.4%62.6%
GPQA Diamond30.7%—

Multilingual Qwen1.5-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English11061058
LMArena Chinese11771141
LMArena Russian10731006
LMArena French1101—
LMArena German1058—
LMArena Japanese1027—
LMArena Korean1008—
LMArena Spanish1089—

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following11161058

Long Context Qwen1.5-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query11461090

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text11371083
LMArena Creative Writing10831035
LMArena Multi-Turn11401062

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-32B better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Qwen1.5-32B and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Qwen1.5-32B or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.7 vs 32.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-32B and Qwen1.5-7B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5-32B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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