Model comparison
Qwen3.7 Max vs StarCoder 2 3B
Qwen3.7 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#35); 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. Qwen3.7 Max 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 Qwen3.7 Max leads 50.2 to 32.9.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 51.4 | 35.8 |
| Released | 2026-05-19 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 131K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 33 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.7 Max leads
Qwen3.7 Max: 50.2 (#43), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9
| Benchmark | Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1515 | — |
| SciCode | 48.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1498 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,189 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3.7 Max: 21.8 (#129), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GBAEval | 0.4% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen3.7 Max: 48.4 (#36), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 153.74 | 88.01 |
| SimpleBench | 70.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 85.1% | — |
| CritPt | 13.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 19% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 9.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1483 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 32% | — |
| DTBench | 92.3% | — |
| LMCA | 44% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Qwen3.7 Max: 62.3 (#26), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 64.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 34.1% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 95.6% | — |
| ProofBench | 26% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1488 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen3.7 Max: 61.7 (#24), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.9% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 55.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1488 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen3.7 Max: 57.1 (#13), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1475 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1533 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1482 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen3.7 Max: 76.9 (#34), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1460 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen3.7 Max: 45.4 (#34), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1484 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen3.7 Max: 65.2 (#52), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.7 Max | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1476 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1450 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1110 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1482 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3.7 Max better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Qwen3.7 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#35); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Qwen3.7 Max or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
Qwen3.7 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.2 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3.7 Max and StarCoder 2 3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3.7 Max has 33 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.