# Qwen3 14B vs StarCoder 2 3B

> Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#225); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen3-14b-vs-starcoder-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3 14B scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 14B leads 37.3 to 33.5.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 35.5 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 225 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.35 | — |
| Output $/M | $1.40 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)
- StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 31.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 41% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.23 | 88.76 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 49.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 4% | — |
| DTBench | 64% | — |
| LMCA | 18.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.4% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 63.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.4% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |

## Long Context

- Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 14B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 62.5% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen3 14B better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#225); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Qwen3 14B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen3 14B and StarCoder 2 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3 14B has 12 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.