# QwQ-32B vs StarCoder 2 3B

> QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#153); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwq-32b-vs-starcoder-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. QwQ-32B scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 54.4% for QwQ-32B and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.

## Snapshot

| | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 35.8 |
| Rank | 153 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)
- StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9

| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.4% | 21.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 20.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 44.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 72.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1333 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |

## Reasoning

- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 137.6 | 88.01 |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 83.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 65% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.3 | — |
| LiveBench | 72% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 59.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 77.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1359 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |

## Knowledge

- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1323 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |

## Multilingual

- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| 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

- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | — |

## Long Context

- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | QwQ-32B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 QwQ-32B better than StarCoder 2 3B?

QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#153); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is QwQ-32B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do QwQ-32B and StarCoder 2 3B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. QwQ-32B has 36 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.