Model comparison

Qwen1.5-32B vs StarCoder 2 7B

Qwen1.5-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#288); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 7B NVIDIA

36.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen1.5-32B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.2 to 31.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 42% for Qwen1.5-32B and 27.7% for StarCoder 2 7B.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-32B and StarCoder 2 7B specifications
Qwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 7B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)NVIDIA
Noometry Index30.036.5
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 7B leads

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 7B
BigCodeBench Complete42%27.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct32.3%—
LMArena Coding1155—
HumanEval+—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts1131—
Epoch Capabilities Index—92.92
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Math1155—
GSM8K—32.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 7B
MMLU74.4%38.8%
GPQA Diamond30.7%—
LMArena Expert1126—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—38.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Non-English1106—
LMArena Chinese1176—
LMArena French1100—
LMArena German1058—
LMArena Japanese1027—
LMArena Korean1007—
LMArena Russian1073—
LMArena Spanish1089—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Instruction Following1116—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Longer Query1146—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-32BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Text1137—
LMArena Creative Writing1083—
LMArena Multi-Turn1140—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-32B better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Qwen1.5-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#288); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Qwen1.5-32B or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 31.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-32B and StarCoder 2 7B share?

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

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