# Qwen Max vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#230); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen-max-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.8 to 30.7.
- StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 34.7 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 230 | — |
| Context | 33K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.60 | — |
| Output $/M | $6.40 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 21.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1288 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1269 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 93.56 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.1% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1275 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 67.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1248 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |

## Multilingual

- Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1254 | — |
| LMArena French | 1330 | — |
| LMArena German | 1254 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1142 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1274 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1262 | — |

## Long Context

- Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1288 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen Max | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1277 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen Max better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#230); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Qwen Max or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen Max and StarCoder 2 7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen Max has 23 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.