Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct from Alibaba ranks #510 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (46.5), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Alibaba
Type: Open-weight / local model
Open weights: Yes
Cheapest API price: $0.010 in / $0.030 out per million tokens (via nscale, observed 2026-10-13T20:47Z)
Aggregate rank: #510 of 743 (score 46.5)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.010 per million tokens, is lower than that of 99% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct benchmark results

Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Aider Code Editing	39.1%	#71 of 92	Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard	2026-10-13

About Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from Alibaba. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.010 per million input tokens and $0.030 per million output tokens, through nscale. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct stands

On our aggregate score, Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct is #510 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 46.5; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 3.5 points below the typical model. That beats 31% of the ranked field. Among the 74 ranked Alibaba models it is #50. The next one up is qwen3.6-plus at 46.6. The next one down is Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct at 46.5.

Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct, benchmark by benchmark

Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct lands below the middle on Aider Code Editing: 39.1%, #71 of 92, with 76% of the field scoring higher. Claude 3.5-Sonnet-20241022 leads at 84.2%; the closest result above is Reflection-70B at 42.1%. It covers Aider official benchmark. The board median is 55.6%, so Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct is 16.5 points below it. Source: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Price and value

The median input price across the 427 priced models is $0.500 per million tokens, so Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct costs less than the typical listing. We found no cheaper model with a similar or better aggregate score, so Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct is the lowest-priced option at its level. Similar scores cost more on Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 ($0.019) and Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct ($0.020).

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard (1). 1 of them come from an official leaderboard and 0 from datasets or third-party runs. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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