Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 leads with 35.7% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B was created as an efficient coding-specialized model, designed to bring strong programming capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built with 7 billion parameters optimized for code understanding and generation, it provides developers with a lightweight option for code-related tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B Thinking was developed as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended thinking capabilities into the large-scale Qwen3 architecture. Built to combine deliberate analytical processing with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves tasks requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
10 months newer

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-25
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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Novita

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