Model comparison
Deepseek Coder v2 vs StarCoder 2 3B
Deepseek Coder v2 has enough public results to be ranked (#220); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
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NVIDIASummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 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 Deepseek Coder v2 leads 38.1 to 33.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.7% for Deepseek Coder v2 and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.
Side by side
| Deepseek Coder v2 | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2024-06-17 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.7% | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 82.3% | 27.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1251 | — |
| MBPP+ | 75.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| WinoGrande | 83.7% | 57.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1207 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 88.76 |
Math Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 94.5% | 21.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1241 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 64.3% | 34.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1181 | — |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1182 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1201 | — |
| LMArena French | 1185 | — |
| LMArena German | 1164 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1126 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1104 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1153 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1180 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1120 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1177 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Deepseek Coder v2 has enough public results to be ranked (#220); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Deepseek Coder v2 or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and StarCoder 2 3B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.