Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.8 Max vs StarCoder 2 3B

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#22); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 3B NVIDIA

36.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3.8 Max scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 53.5 to 33.5.
  • StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)NVIDIA
Noometry Index56.836.3
Released2026-08-022024-02-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output131K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked397

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
DeepSWE57.5%—
LMArena WebDev1674—
FrontierSWE17.8%—
SciCode53.2%—
LMArena Coding1502—
BigCodeBench Complete—21.4%
HumanEval+—27.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
APEX-Agents63.3%—
τ²-bench Banking55.1%—
GDP.pdf23.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index156.4188.76
NYT Connections (extended)88.3%—
CritPt20%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1496—
Mystery Game Puzzles38%—
DTBench92%—
LMCA46.2%—
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)74.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 446.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1499—
GSM8K—21.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
GPQA Diamond92.7%—
SimpleQA Verified47.3%—
LMArena Expert1507—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—34.2%
MMLU—36.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly20%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Non-English1472—
LMArena Chinese1538—
LMArena French1503—
LMArena German1483—
LMArena Japanese1467—
LMArena Korean1461—
LMArena Russian1481—
LMArena Spanish1492—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Longer Query1489—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Text1483—
LMArena Creative Writing1479—
LMArena Multi-Turn1489—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.8 Max better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#22); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Qwen3.8 Max or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.5 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.8 Max and StarCoder 2 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3.8 Max has 39 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.

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