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Qwen3-Coder 8B on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means

Qwen3-Coder 8B scores 46.0 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #453 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
46.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#453
of 600
Percentile
25th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
35.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with Qwen3-Coder 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 81.7
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 81.1
GPT-5.2 Max 80.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 80.2
GPT-5.2 80.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 80.1
o4 Max 79.8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 79.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 79.5
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 79.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
3 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2

What this score means

On SWE-bench Verified, Qwen3-Coder 8B sits at #453 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 35.7 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts Qwen3-Coder 8B below the midpoint.

Alibaba Cloud models average 60.8 on this benchmark. Qwen3-Coder 8B is 14.8 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Alibaba Cloud model.

Among coding models, the average is 56.2. Qwen3-Coder 8B is 10.2 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 46.0 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $1.43 per million input tokens, Qwen3-Coder 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on SWE-bench Verified. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
GPT-NeoX EleutherAI 16384 $1.57 61.7
QwQ 7B Alibaba Cloud 8192 $1.11 58.1
Codestral 8B Mistral AI 4096 $1.18 59.0
MiniMax-Text 8B MiniMax 4096 $1.22 59.5
Qwen3-Coder 8B Alibaba Cloud 32768 $1.43 61.3
Llama 4 Scout 7B Meta AI 32768 $1.30 60.0
Kimi K1.5 7B Moonshot AI 8192 $1.35 59.9

Other benchmarks for Qwen3-Coder 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 67.6 423 30th
GPQA Diamond 55.4 459 24th
HumanEval 64.6 446 26th
MATH-500 63.5 430 28th
AIME 2025 54.4 418 30th
LiveCodeBench 52.4 423 30th
IFEval 70.1 461 23th
TruthfulQA 64.9 461 23th
HellaSwag 76.6 419 30th
MMMU 58.8 444 26th
Arena Elo 1286.5 436 27th

FAQ

What score does Qwen3-Coder 8B get on SWE-bench Verified?

Qwen3-Coder 8B scores 46.0 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does Qwen3-Coder 8B rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #453 of 600 models, in the 25th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is Qwen3-Coder 8B good at SWE-bench Verified?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the SWE-bench Verified score calculated?

SWE-bench Verified is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Qwen3-Coder 8B cost?

Qwen3-Coder 8B costs $1.43 per million input tokens and $7.30 per million output tokens.

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