Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 33B vs StarCoder 2 15B

Neither DeepSeek Coder 33B nor StarCoder 2 15B has enough public benchmark results to be ranked yet; the rows below show what has been published.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek

38.9

Unranked Sparse

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

38.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 15B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 51.1% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 38.4% for StarCoder 2 15B.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 33B and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 33BStarCoder 2 15B
ProviderDeepSeekNVIDIA
Noometry Index38.938.1
Released2023-11-022024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked97

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads

DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BStarCoder 2 15B
BigCodeBench Complete51.1%38.4%
HumanEval+75%37.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct42%—
MBPP+70.1%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BStarCoder 2 15B
Epoch Capabilities Index96.32105
WinoGrande62%64.3%

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BStarCoder 2 15B
GSM8K35.4%57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BStarCoder 2 15B
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.2%47.2%
MMLU39.4%64.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Neither DeepSeek Coder 33B nor StarCoder 2 15B has enough public benchmark results to be ranked yet; the rows below show what has been published.

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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