Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B vs Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.9 vs 33.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

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

32.9

Rank #239 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.3

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-9B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 32.9.
  • Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.66 / $1 for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
  • Qwen3.5-9B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 33K.

Side by side

Qwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.933.3
Released2024-09-182026-02-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window33K262K
Max output29K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.66$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$1$0.15
Results tracked3110

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.4 (#328), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)

BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)9%—
Aider Polyglot16.4%—
SciCode—27.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct49%—
LiveBench Coding56.9%—
LMArena Coding1276—
BigCodeBench Complete58%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+77%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)

BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%

Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 20.4 (#220), Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)

BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
Epoch Capabilities Index119.41139.45
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Reasoning42.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1251—
DTBench—71.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis49.9%—
LMCA—24.5%
HellaSwag83%—
LiveBench46.2%—
WinoGrande80.8%—

Math Qwen3.5-9B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 30.8 (#203), Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)

BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—61.7%
LiveBench Math46.6%—
LMArena Math1251—
GSM8K93%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 32.9 (#200), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)

BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond—79%
LMArena Expert1221—
ARC (AI2) Challenge70.5%—
MMLU79.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#230), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Non-English1205—
LMArena Chinese1222—
LMArena Russian1228—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.6 (#240), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
LiveBench Instruction Following58.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1223—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.9 (#204), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Longer Query1251—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.8 (#235), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkQwen2.5-Coder-32BQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Text1230—
LMArena Creative Writing1174—
LMArena Multi-Turn1222—
LiveBench Language23.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.9 vs 33.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B or Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-Coder-32B lists at $0.66 and $1.

Is Qwen2.5-Coder-32B or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 22.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5-9B does, with 262K tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5-Coder-32B and Qwen3.5-9B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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