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

Qwen3-Coder Base scores 64.0 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #232 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
64.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#232
of 600
Percentile
61th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
17.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with Qwen3-Coder Base 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 Base sits at #232 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 17.7 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts Qwen3-Coder Base above the midpoint.

Alibaba Cloud models average 60.8 on this benchmark. Qwen3-Coder Base is 3.2 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Alibaba Cloud model.

Among coding models, the average is 56.2. Qwen3-Coder Base is 7.8 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 64.0 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 $3.99 per million input tokens, Qwen3-Coder Base 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
Llama 3 Lambda Chat Lambda 32768 $3.73 74.7
Llama 3.1 Instruct Meta AI 200000 $4.05 75.7
Llama 3.1 Turbo Chat Together AI 200000 $3.95 76.1
Hunyuan-Turbo Pro Tencent 65536 $12.00 77.6
Qwen3-Coder Base Alibaba Cloud 200000 $3.99 76.6
Command R+ Cohere 32768 $3.96 76.3
ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning Baidu 65536 $12.20 77.8

Other benchmarks for Qwen3-Coder Base

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 78.3 235 61th
GPQA Diamond 72.2 216 64th
HumanEval 78.5 282 53th
MATH-500 82.4 156 74th
AIME 2025 73.7 193 68th
LiveCodeBench 68.0 227 62th
IFEval 85.7 168 72th
TruthfulQA 80.8 162 73th
HellaSwag 85.5 228 62th
MMMU 73.4 208 65th
Arena Elo 1409.2 185 69th

FAQ

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

Qwen3-Coder Base scores 64.0 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does Qwen3-Coder Base rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #232 of 600 models, in the 61st percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is Qwen3-Coder Base good at SWE-bench Verified?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. 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 Base cost?

Qwen3-Coder Base costs $3.99 per million input tokens and $18.04 per million output tokens.

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