# Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and QwQ-32B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 42.0.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.7 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 186 | 153 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)
- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1413 | 1333 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 55.4% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1275 | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 41.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 461.45 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.44 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)
- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | 1326 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 49.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)
- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1364 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1337 | 1323 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |

## Multilingual

- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)
- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1345 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1356 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1394 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1324 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1309 | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | 1307 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1367 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1360 | 1353 |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)
- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1356 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1379 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)
- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1356 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1365 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.2 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and QwQ-32B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.