Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs StarCoder 2 15B
Claude 3.5 Haiku has enough public results to be ranked (#315); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.6 to 32.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 38.4% for StarCoder 2 15B.
- StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 49 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | 38.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | 105 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | — |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1244 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 74.3% | 64.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | — |
| LMArena French | 1264 | — |
| LMArena German | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than StarCoder 2 15B?
Claude 3.5 Haiku has enough public results to be ranked (#315); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and StarCoder 2 15B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.