Model comparison
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B vs StarCoder 2 3B
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#239); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)
NVIDIASummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 3B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 3B leads 32.9 to 22.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 58% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.
Side by side
| Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 35.8 |
| Released | 2024-09-18 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 33K | — |
| Max output | 29K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.66 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1 | — |
| Results tracked | 31 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 3B leads
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.4 (#328), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58% | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 87.2% | 27.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 16.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 49% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 56.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1276 | — |
| MBPP+ | 77% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 20.4 (#220), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.41 | 88.01 |
| WinoGrande | 80.8% | 57.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 42.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 49.9% | — |
| HellaSwag | 83% | — |
| LiveBench | 46.2% | — |
Math Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 30.8 (#203), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 93% | 21.6% |
| LiveBench Math | 46.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1251 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 32.9 (#200), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 70.5% | 34.2% |
| MMLU | 79.1% | 36.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1221 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#230), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1222 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1228 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.6 (#240), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 58.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1223 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.9 (#204), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1251 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.8 (#235), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1230 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1222 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 23.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#239); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Qwen2.5-Coder-32B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 22.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5-Coder-32B and StarCoder 2 3B share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.