# Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) vs Qwen3 8B

> Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen2-5-coder-vs-qwen3-8b
- 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 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 33.7 |
| Rank | — | 238 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.18 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |

## Reasoning

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.14 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| HellaSwag | 76.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.9% | — |

## Math

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.9% | — |
| MMLU | 68% | — |

## Long Context

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); 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 8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.