# Qwen1.5-110B vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Qwen1.5-110B has enough public results to be ranked (#234); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen1-5-110b-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen1.5-110B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.6 to 33.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 44.4% for Qwen1.5-110B and 38.4% for StarCoder 2 15B.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen1.5-110B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 34.2 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 234 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-110B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 44.4% | 38.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 35% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1184 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Reasoning

- Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-110B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1168 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 105 |
| ForecastBench | 57.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |

## Math

- Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-110B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1185 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-110B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1144 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |

## Multilingual

- Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-110B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1142 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1206 | — |
| LMArena French | 1151 | — |
| LMArena German | 1123 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1074 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1044 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1118 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1142 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-110B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1158 | — |

## Long Context

- Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-110B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1157 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-110B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1148 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen1.5-110B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Qwen1.5-110B has enough public results to be ranked (#234); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Qwen1.5-110B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-110B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen1.5-110B has 20 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.