Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs StarCoder 2 3B
Claude 3.7 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#154); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 41.1 to 32.9.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 35.8 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 58 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 88.01 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1336 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | — |
| LMArena French | 1302 | — |
| LMArena German | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1268 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1299 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#154); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.1 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and StarCoder 2 3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.