Model comparison
QwQ-32B vs StarCoder 2 3B
QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#153); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)
NVIDIASummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. QwQ-32B scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 54.4% for QwQ-32B and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.
Side by side
| QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 35.8 |
| Released | 2024-11-28 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 36 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding QwQ-32B leads
QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9
| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.4% | 21.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 20.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 44.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 72.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1333 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Reasoning Not comparable
QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 137.6 | 88.01 |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 83.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.3 | — |
| LiveBench | 72% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 59.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 77.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1359 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1323 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1378 | — |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1313 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1297 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1353 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1329 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1288 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.2% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is QwQ-32B better than StarCoder 2 3B?
QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#153); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is QwQ-32B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do QwQ-32B and StarCoder 2 3B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. QwQ-32B has 36 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.