Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 235B A22B leads with 12.7% higher average benchmark score. Both models have similar pricing. Overall, Qwen3 235B A22B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B was developed as a specialized coding model, designed to excel at programming tasks with 32 billion parameters specifically optimized for code. Built to understand and generate code across multiple programming languages, it serves developers requiring advanced code completion, debugging, and explanation capabilities.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
7 months newer

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 7 common benchmarks

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Lambda

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita
Together