Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B
Open Weights
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba's state-of-the-art open-source code model achieving GPT-4o-level coding performance. Released November 2024 with 32B parameters - small enough to run on consumer hardware (32GB+ RAM). Best open-source model on multiple code generation benchmarks (EvalPlus, LiveCodeBench, BigCodeBench). Scores 73.7 on Aider code repair (comparable to GPT-4o). Excels across 40+ programming languages with 65.9 on McEval multi-language benchmark. Achieves 75.2 on MdEval code repair (first among open-source). Available in sizes from 0.5B to 32B. Represents breakthrough in accessible, GPT-4o-class coding assistance.
Strengths
- Matches GPT-4o coding performance as best open-source code model
- Runs on consumer hardware - 32GB+ RAM sufficient (highly accessible)
- Best open-source on multiple benchmarks - EvalPlus, LiveCodeBench, BigCodeBench
- 73.7 Aider score for code repair (comparable to GPT-4o)
- Exceptional multi-language support - 40+ languages, 65.9 McEval score
- 75.2 MdEval multi-language repair (first among open-source models)
- Apache 2.0 license enables unrestricted commercial use
Caveats
- Text-only (no vision or multimodal capabilities)
- 4K max output tokens lower than some newer models
- 32B size still requires significant resources vs smaller models
- Best performance on code tasks - general knowledge lower than GPT-4o
- Ecosystem less mature than OpenAI/Anthropic models
- Vendor
- Alibaba Cloud
- Context Window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max Output
- 4,096 tokens
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Release Date
- 2024-11-12
- Modalities
- text
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
Open source (Apache 2.0) - free. Runs on 32GB+ RAM. API providers typically $0.15-$0.60 per 1M input tokens