Model comparison

Qwen1.5-32B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen1.5-32B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.4 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 32.3% for Qwen1.5-32B and 49% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-32B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
Qwen1.5-32BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.533.4
Released2024-02-042024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked2131

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct32.3%49%
LMArena Coding11551276
BigCodeBench Complete42%58%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Reasoning Too close to call

Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts11301251
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—119.49
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Too close to call

Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math11551251
LiveBench Math—46.6%
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert11261221
MMLU74.4%79.1%
GPQA Diamond30.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%

Multilingual Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English11061205
LMArena Chinese11771222
LMArena Russian10731228
LMArena French1101—
LMArena German1058—
LMArena Japanese1027—
LMArena Korean1008—
LMArena Spanish1089—

Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following11161223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query11461251

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text11371230
LMArena Creative Writing10831174
LMArena Multi-Turn11401222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-32B better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen1.5-32B or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.7 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-32B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5-32B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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