Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs StarCoder 2 15B
Codellama 34b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#287); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
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NVIDIASummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct 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 28.5.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 38.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | 37.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 105 |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than StarCoder 2 15B?
Codellama 34b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#287); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and StarCoder 2 15B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.