Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs StarCoder 2 3B

Neither DeepSeek Coder 6.7B nor StarCoder 2 3B has enough public benchmark results to be ranked yet; the rows below show what has been published.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B DeepSeek

37.6

Unranked Sparse

StarCoder 2 3B NVIDIA

36.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 43.8% for DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and StarCoder 2 3B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 6.7BStarCoder 2 3B
ProviderDeepSeekNVIDIA
Noometry Index37.636.3
Released2023-11-022024-02-22
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked97

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 6.7B leads

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.8 (#219), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BStarCoder 2 3B
BigCodeBench Complete43.8%21.4%
HumanEval+71.3%27.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct35.5%—
MBPP+65.6%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, StarCoder 2 3B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BStarCoder 2 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index89.6288.76
WinoGrande57.6%57.1%

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, StarCoder 2 3B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BStarCoder 2 3B
GSM8K21.3%21.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, StarCoder 2 3B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BStarCoder 2 3B
ARC (AI2) Challenge36.4%34.2%
MMLU36.4%36.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Neither DeepSeek Coder 6.7B nor StarCoder 2 3B has enough public benchmark results to be ranked yet; the rows below show what has been published.

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and StarCoder 2 3B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.

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