Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs StarCoder 2 15B

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#261); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

38.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.5% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 38.4% for StarCoder 2 15B.
  • StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index32.138.1
Released2024-02-152024-02-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked457

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%38.4%
HumanEval+79.3%37.8%
WeirdML22.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
LMArena Coding1294—
CadEval34%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73105
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1296—
DTBench59%—
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
ForecastBench58.4—
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%—
Omni-MATH36.4%—
LMArena Math1315—
MATH Level 570.4%—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
MMLU86.9%64.1%
GPQA Diamond57.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations13.5%—
GPQA (HELM)53.4%—
LMArena Expert1279—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Non-English1312—
LMArena Chinese1331—
LMArena French1302—
LMArena German1286—
LMArena Japanese1292—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Russian1320—
LMArena Spanish1311—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
IFEval83.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Longer Query1308—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)StarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Text1319—
LMArena Creative Writing1333—
WildBench81.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1296—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#261); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and StarCoder 2 15B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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