Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs StarCoder 2 7B

Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#310); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 7B NVIDIA

37.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 27.7% for StarCoder 2 7B.
  • StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index29.537.0
Released2024-02-292024-02-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked467

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 7B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%27.7%
HumanEval+77.4%29.9%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
Epoch Capabilities Index126.9193.56
WinoGrande88.5%57.1%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1245—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—
GSM8K—32.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
MMLU84.6%38.8%
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—38.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Non-English1258—
LMArena Chinese1248—
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), StarCoder 2 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Text1262—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#310); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude 3 Opus or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and StarCoder 2 7B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.

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