Model comparison
Qwen3.6 Plus vs StarCoder 2 3B
Qwen3.6 Plus has enough public results to be ranked (#54); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)
NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3.6 Plus 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 Qwen3.6 Plus leads 40.6 to 32.9.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 47.3 | 35.8 |
| Released | 2026-03-31 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3 | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.6 (#125), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 57.9% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1461 | — |
| SciCode | 40.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1467 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 670.15 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Plus: —, StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,115 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Plus: 28.5 (#89), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 147.67 | 88.01 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 60.3% | — |
| CritPt | 2.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 17% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 59.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1449 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 12% | — |
| DTBench | 81.9% | — |
| LMCA | 33.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Plus: 50.6 (#44), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 38.2% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 93.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1450 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 26.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 8.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#40), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 44.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1456 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.5 (#66), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1424 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1478 | — |
| LMArena French | 1454 | — |
| LMArena German | 1451 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1381 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1432 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.2 (#70), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1425 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.1 (#48), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | 20.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1440 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.4 (#78), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1405 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1438 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3.6 Plus better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Qwen3.6 Plus has enough public results to be ranked (#54); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Qwen3.6 Plus or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
Qwen3.6 Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3.6 Plus and StarCoder 2 3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3.6 Plus has 37 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.