Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs StarCoder 2 15B
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#292); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | |
| Noometry Index | 29.7 | 37.5 |
| Released | 2024-10-03 | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 21 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1210 | — |
| DTBench | 50% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 104.61 |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |
Math Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1207 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1185 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1044 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1215 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1231 | — |
| LMArena French | 1233 | — |
| LMArena German | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1140 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1236 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1212 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1226 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1185 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than StarCoder 2 15B?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#292); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and StarCoder 2 15B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.