# Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) vs Qwen3 32B

> Qwen3 32B has enough public results to be ranked (#172); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen2-5-coder-vs-qwen3-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 39.2 |
| Rank | — | 172 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1358 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.14 | 138.51 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1334 |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| HellaSwag | 76.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.9% | — |

## Math

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1399 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.9% | — |
| MMLU | 68% | — |

## Multilingual

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1305 |

## Long Context

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1331 |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B has enough public results to be ranked (#172); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) and Qwen3 32B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.