Model comparison
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct vs Step 3
Step 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)
StepFunSummary
- The widest gap is in math, where Step 3 leads 37.6 to 12.6.
Side by side
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | StepFun |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 40.5 |
| Released | 2024-09 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.17 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.70 | — |
| Results tracked | 15 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Step 3 leads
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208), Step 3: 40.1 (#147)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1367 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124), Step 3: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 7.8% | — |
Reasoning Step 3 leads
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322), Step 3: 28.4 (#105)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 62.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1355 |
| DTBench | 47.7% | — |
| LMCA | 6.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.51 | — |
Math Step 3 leads
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306), Step 3: 37.6 (#148)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 29.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1366 |
Knowledge Step 3 leads
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286), Step 3: 36.8 (#164)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 35.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 53.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 34.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1333 |
| MMLU | 72.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —, Step 3: 35.5 (#86)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1177 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —, Step 3: 46.3 (#159)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1327 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1397 |
| LMArena German | — | 1371 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1331 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1371 |
Instruction Following Step 3 leads
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231), Step 3: 70.4 (#164)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 74.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1332 |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —, Step 3: 40.3 (#157)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1326 |
Writing & Preference Step 3 leads
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195), Step 3: 54.3 (#151)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Step 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1350 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1321 |
| WildBench | 73.1% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1341 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better than Step 3?
Step 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Qwen2.5 7B Instruct or Step 3 better for coding?
Step 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5 7B Instruct and Step 3 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15 scored results on Noometry and Step 3 has 17.