Model comparison
Qwen3 14B vs StarCoder 2 15B
Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#225); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)
NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3 14B scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 15B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
Side by side
| Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 35.5 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2025-04 | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.35 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.40 | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 31.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 41% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.23 | 105 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 49.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 4% | — |
| DTBench | 64% | — |
| LMCA | 18.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |
Math Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.4% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 63.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.4% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 62.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3 14B better than StarCoder 2 15B?
Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#225); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Qwen3 14B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (37.3 vs 36.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3 14B and StarCoder 2 15B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3 14B has 12 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.