Model comparison
Qwen3 14B vs StarCoder 2 7B
Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#222); StarCoder 2 7B 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 7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
Side by side
| Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 36.5 |
| 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 Qwen3 14B leads
Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 31.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 41% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.23 | 92.92 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 49.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 4% | — |
| DTBench | 64% | — |
| LMCA | 18.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.4% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 63.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.4% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201), StarCoder 2 7B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 62.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3 14B better than StarCoder 2 7B?
Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#222); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Qwen3 14B or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?
Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3 14B and StarCoder 2 7B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3 14B has 12 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.