# Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct vs StarCoder 2 3B

> Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#302); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen2-5-vl-72b-instruct-vs-starcoder-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 302 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $2.80 | — |
| Output $/M | $8.40 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
- StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | 5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 36% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 88.76 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |

## Multimodal

- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1107 | — |
| Video-MME | 73.5% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#302); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct and StarCoder 2 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.