# Qwen2.5 72B Instruct vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen2-5-72b-instruct-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 55.9% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct and 27.7% for StarCoder 2 7B.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 267 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.40 | — |
| Output $/M | $5.60 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.9% | 27.7% |
| WeirdML | 16% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1292 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 5.7% | — |
| BALROG | 16.2% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 35.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129 | 93.56 |
| WinoGrande | 82.3% | 57.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1271 | — |
| DTBench | 62.9% | — |
| LMCA | 13.4% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 79.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
| HellaSwag | 84.8% | — |
| PIQA | 82.6% | — |

## Math

- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1283 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 94.5% | 38.7% |
| MMLU | 85.3% | 38.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | 49.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 63.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 42.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1245 | — |
| TriviaQA | 71.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | — |
| LMArena French | 1280 | — |
| LMArena German | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1180 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1264 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1256 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 80.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |

## Long Context

- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1282 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1221 | — |
| WildBench | 80.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1272 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5 72B Instruct and StarCoder 2 7B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.