Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen1.5-32B vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

37.7

Rank #186 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen1.5-32B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 36.4 to 13.5.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.037.7
Released2024-02-042025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked2125

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Coding11551413
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1275
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—41.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct32.3%—
BigCodeBench Complete42%—
ALE-Bench—461.45
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11311372
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math11551364

Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert11261337
GPQA Diamond30.7%—
MMLU74.4%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English11061345
LMArena Chinese11761356
LMArena French11001394
LMArena German10581324
LMArena Japanese10271309
LMArena Korean10071307
LMArena Russian10731367
LMArena Spanish10891360

Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11161356

Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query11461379

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text11371356
LMArena Creative Writing10831333
LMArena Multi-Turn11401365

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-32B better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen1.5-32B or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.2 versus 31.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-32B and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5-32B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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