# Qwen3 14B vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#222); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen3-14b-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3 14B scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 15B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 37.5 |
| Rank | 222 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.35 | — |
| Output $/M | $1.40 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen3 14B: 36.7 (#191)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 31.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen3 14B: 29.4 (#78)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 41% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen3 14B: 18.1 (#272)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.23 | 104.61 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 49.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 4% | — |
| DTBench | 64% | — |
| LMCA | 18.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |

## Math

- Qwen3 14B: 37.0 (#102)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.4% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen3 14B: 39.2 (#124)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 63.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.4% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |

## Long Context

- Qwen3 14B: 38.0 (#201)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 62.5% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen3 14B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#222); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Qwen3 14B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (36.7 vs 36.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen3 14B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3 14B has 12 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.