Qwen (Alibaba Cloud) Open Weights (Apache 2.0)Status: active

Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

Alibaba's open-weights code generation specialist matching GPT-4o on coding benchmarks while fitting on a single GPU.

Released: Nov 12, 2024
Last Verified: Aug 10, 2026
Context Window

128k

Tokens

Max Output

8.192k

Output limit

Architecture

Dense Transformer

Model family

Parameters

32.5B

Total / Active

Input Token Cost

$0.00

Per 1M tokens

Output Token Cost

$0.00

Per 1M tokens

Model Overview

Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct is widely recognized as the premier open-weights model for software development and repository-level reasoning. It matches or exceeds larger closed models on HumanEval, LiveCodeBench, and SWE-bench while running smoothly on a single RTX 3090/4090 (24GB VRAM) in 4-bit quantization.

Developer Implementation Notes

Permissive Apache 2.0 license. In Q4_K_M GGUF format, it consumes only 19.8GB VRAM and runs at 35+ tokens/sec on consumer hardware.

Key Strengths

  • Open-source under permissive Apache 2.0 license
  • Matches closed frontier models on LiveCodeBench (60.1%)
  • Runs on a single 24GB consumer GPU (RTX 3090/4090)
  • 128k context window support with full repository understanding

Limitations & Boundaries

  • Text/code only (no visual diagram comprehension)
  • General creative writing is less polished than non-coder models

Capabilities & Modalities

Modalities:text
Reasoning Chains:No
Tool / Function Calling:Supported
Structured Outputs:Supported
Fine-Tuning:Supported
Local Deployment:Yes
Min VRAM:20 GB

Best Production Use Cases

  • Local AI code editor backend (Cursor, Continue.dev, Claude Code)
  • Private enterprise codebase automated refactoring
  • Autonomous code review & test generation

Verified Benchmark Results

Standardized evaluations with methodology notes and authoritative citation links.

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Coding Official
LiveCodeBench

60.1%

Pass@1, 0-shot code generation

Coding Official
SWE-bench Verified

35.8%

Pass@1 with standard open-weights harness

General Knowledge & Frontier Official
MMLU-Pro

70.4%

5-shot standard evaluation

Pricing & Inference Cost Calculator

Token Cost Estimator – Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

Calculate projected inference spend with prompt caching

Quick Workload Presets

Input Tokens / Req2,000
100100k200k
Output Tokens / Req500
5016k32k
Number of Requests1,000
125k50k
Cache Hit Rate0%
0% (No cache)50%90% (Max)
Total Input Spend

$0.0000

2.00M input tokens

Total Output Spend

$0.0000

0.50M output tokens

Estimated Total Cost

$0.00

Avg: $0.00000 / req

Rates: $0.00 in / $0.00 out per million tokens (Self-Hosted (Local / Ollama))Last verified: Aug 10, 2026

Deployment & Integration Options

Ollama (Local)local ollama
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b
Hardware: 24GB VRAM (Q4_K_M)Provider Console

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