Model comparison
Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
Side by side
| Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 33.7 |
| Released | 2024-09-18 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 6 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —, Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —, Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.14 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| HellaSwag | 76.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —, Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.9% | — |
| MMLU | 68% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —, Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) and Qwen3 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.