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Model comparison

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs StarCoder 2 15B

Gemini 3.7 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

37.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 15B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 55.7 to 36.0.
  • StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index59.837.5
Released2026-08-132024-02-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked447

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 55.7 (#19), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
DeepSWE65.5%—
FrontierCode43.6%—
LMArena WebDev1593—
FrontierSWE20.3%—
SciCode59.8%—
LMArena Coding1499—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.4%
ALE-Bench904.3—
HumanEval+—37.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.2 (#18), StarCoder 2 15B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
APEX-Agents67.8%—
Remote Labor Index5%—
GDP.pdf23.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.1 (#12), StarCoder 2 15B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
Epoch Capabilities Index157.72104.61
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt14.3%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1497—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench96.8%—
LMCA50.4%—
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.5 (#18), StarCoder 2 15B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)71.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 436.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1511—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.8 (#4), StarCoder 2 15B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
GPQA Diamond94.8%—
SimpleQA Verified69.2%—
LMArena Expert1508—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%
MMLU—64.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 36.9 (#69), StarCoder 2 15B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly26.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.8 (#7), StarCoder 2 15B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Non-English1485—
LMArena Chinese1553—
LMArena French1512—
LMArena German1485—
LMArena Japanese1506—
LMArena Korean1486—
LMArena Russian1519—
LMArena Spanish1507—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 78.0 (#12), StarCoder 2 15B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Instruction Following1486—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.8 (#28), StarCoder 2 15B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Longer Query1493—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.4 (#19), StarCoder 2 15B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Text1487—
LMArena Creative Writing1490—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1723—
LMArena Multi-Turn1495—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Gemini 3.7 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.7 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.7 Flash and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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