Model comparison

Qwen3-4B vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 37.6 to 29.7.

Side by side

Qwen3-4B and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct specifications
Qwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.938.1
Released2025-04-292025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked625

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1275
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—41.2%
LMArena Coding—1412
ALE-Bench—461.45
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-4B leads

Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard35.7%—

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
Chess Puzzles4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1372

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions38.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202552.2%—
LMArena Math—1365

Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
GPQA Diamond52.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.7%—
LMArena Expert—1338

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1346
LMArena Chinese—1357
LMArena French—1398
LMArena German—1325
LMArena Japanese—1310
LMArena Korean—1305
LMArena Russian—1366
LMArena Spanish—1360

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following—1355

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1378

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3-4BQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text—1357
LMArena Creative Writing—1333
LMArena Multi-Turn—1365

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3-4B better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3-4B and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-4B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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