# Qwen3 8B vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen3-8b-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3 8B scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 37.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 62.1% for Qwen3 8B and 83.3% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.3 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 237 | 153 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.18 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)
- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| SciCode | 22.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 42.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)
- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | 5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.17 | 137.6 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1326 |
| DTBench | 59.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)
- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 56.1% | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |

## Knowledge

- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.8% | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1323 |

## Multilingual

- Qwen3 8B: —
- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1353 |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen3 8B: —
- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1297 |

## Long Context

- Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 62.1% | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1308 |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen3 8B: —
- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

| Benchmark | Qwen3 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1288 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen3 8B better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Qwen3 8B or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen3 8B and QwQ-32B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 8B has 11 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.