Alibaba (Qwen), open weights
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct by Alibaba (Qwen) ranks 297th of 354 ranked models on the Noometry Index as of October 2026, with a score of 30.1. Its strongest category is coding, where it ranks 169th. API pricing starts at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens, with a 131K-token context window.
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Specifications
- Noometry rank
- #297 of 354
- Index score
- 30.1
- Evidence
- Confirmed 7 results
- Provider
Alibaba (Qwen)
- Released
- September 1, 2024
- Weights
- Open weights
- Reasoning
- No
- Context window
- 131K
- Max output
- 8K
- Input price
- $0.70 / M
- Output price
- $2.80 / M
- Blended price
- $1.22 / M
- Output speed
- Not measured
- Value
- #145 of 219
- Knowledge cutoff
- April 2024
- Input
- text
Category scores
Each category score combines every public result we have in that category.
- Coding 38.7
- Reasoning 19.2
- Math 16.2
- Knowledge 24.9
Strengths and weaknesses
Categories where Qwen2.5 32B Instruct places highest and lowest among the models ranked in each, with its score against that category's median.
Strongest categories
Closest competitors
The models ranked just above and below Qwen2.5 32B Instruct. When scores are this close, price and speed are often the better way to choose.
| Model | Rank | Score | Blended $/M | Speed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen1.5-32B | #293 | 30.5 | — | — | Compare |
| Amazon Nova Micro | #294 | 30.4 | $0.0613 | — | Compare |
| Olmo 7b Instruct | #295 | 30.3 | — | — | Compare |
| Magistral Small | #296 | 30.2 | $0.75 | 0 | Compare |
| Palm 2 | #298 | 30.0 | — | — | Compare |
| Gemma 7B | #299 | 30.0 | — | — | Compare |
| Qwen2-72B | #300 | 30.0 | — | — | Compare |
| Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | #301 | 29.9 | — | — | Compare |
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Benchmark results
Every published result we track, with its source. Bold rows are the ones used for ranking; where several exist we prefer independent runs over self-reported numbers.
Coding
| Benchmark | Score | Position | Setting | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45% | #21 of 64, top 33% | BigCodeBench | 2024-09-19 | |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.3% | #28 of 66, top 43% | BigCodeBench | 2024-09-19 |
Reasoning
| Benchmark | Score | Position | Setting | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | #126 of 129, top 98% | Epoch AI | 2026-08-30 | |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | #146 of 213, top 69% | Epoch AI | 2024-09-17 |
Math
| Benchmark | Score | Position | Setting | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 7.4% | #140 of 173, top 81% | Epoch AI | 2025-02-25 | |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.1% | #42 of 79, top 54% | Epoch AI | 2025-01-30 |
Knowledge
| Benchmark | Score | Position | Setting | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 46.1% | #141 of 186, top 76% | Epoch AI | 2025-01-30 |
API pricing by provider
| Route | Input $/M | Output $/M | Cached input $/M | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| alibaba | $0.70 | $2.80 | — | 2026-10-10 |
Compare Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Magistral Small
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Palm 2
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Olmo 7b Instruct
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Gemma 7B
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Amazon Nova Micro
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Qwen2-72B
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs GPT-6 Astra
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Claude Fable 5.1
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Kimi K3
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Grok 4.6
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs GLM-5.3
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Muse Spark 1.3
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs DeepSeek V4 Pro
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- Qwen3.5 Max Preview45.3
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Frequently asked questions
How good is Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct by Alibaba (Qwen) ranks 297th of 354 ranked models on the Noometry Index as of October 2026, with a score of 30.1. Its strongest category is coding, where it ranks 169th. API pricing starts at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens, with a 131K-token context window.
How much does Qwen2.5 32B Instruct cost?
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct costs $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens on Alibaba (Qwen)'s own API.
What is Qwen2.5 32B Instruct's context window?
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct accepts up to 131K tokens of input and can write up to 8K tokens in one response.
Is Qwen2.5 32B Instruct open source?
Yes. Qwen2.5 32B Instruct's weights are downloadable; check the license for commercial terms.
What are Qwen2.5 32B Instruct's strengths and weaknesses?
Relative to other ranked models, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct places best in coding, reasoning and lowest in math, knowledge.
What is Qwen2.5 32B Instruct best at?
Its best category is coding, where it ranks 169th on Noometry.