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Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and QwQ-32B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 42.0.

Side by side

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.139.8
Released2025-042024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$7.50—
Results tracked2536

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14121333
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)55.4%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LMArena WebDev1275—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML41.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench461.45—
AlgoTune1.44—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
Terminal-Bench27.2%—

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts13721325
Kagi LLM Benchmark49.5%—
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Too close to call

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Math13651359
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%

Knowledge Too close to call

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Expert13381324
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%

Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English13461305
LMArena Chinese13571378
LMArena French13981336
LMArena German13251313
LMArena Japanese13101262
LMArena Korean13051279
LMArena Russian13661297
LMArena Spanish13601354

Instruction Following Too close to call

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following13551297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query13781308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkQwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Text13571329
LMArena Creative Writing13331288
LMArena Multi-Turn13651314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct or QwQ-32B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.5 vs 35.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and QwQ-32B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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