Model comparison

Qwen1.5-32B vs StarCoder 2 15B

Qwen1.5-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#293); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

38.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen1.5-32B 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 36.6 to 31.7.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-32B and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
Qwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 15B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)NVIDIA
Noometry Index30.538.1
Released2024-02-042024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked217

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 15B
BigCodeBench Complete42%38.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct32.3%—
LMArena Coding1155—
HumanEval+—37.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Hard Prompts1130—
Epoch Capabilities Index—105
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Math1155—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 15B
MMLU74.4%64.1%
GPQA Diamond30.7%—
LMArena Expert1126—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Non-English1106—
LMArena Chinese1177—
LMArena French1101—
LMArena German1058—
LMArena Japanese1027—
LMArena Korean1008—
LMArena Russian1073—
LMArena Spanish1089—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Instruction Following1116—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Longer Query1146—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Text1137—
LMArena Creative Writing1083—
LMArena Multi-Turn1140—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-32B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Qwen1.5-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#293); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Qwen1.5-32B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-32B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5-32B has 21 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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