Model comparison
Gemma 2 9B vs StarCoder 2 3B
Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 3B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 3B leads 33.5 to 29.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 40.6% for Gemma 2 9B and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.
Side by side
| Gemma 2 9B | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2024-06-24 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 35 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 3B leads
Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 40.6% | 21.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 34.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 22.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1173 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.83 | 88.76 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1171 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 36.4% | — |
| LiveBench | 28.7% | — |
| PIQA | 83.7% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 84.9% | 21.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 19.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1183 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 21% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 72.1% | 36.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 27.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1147 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| BoolQ | 85.7% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1185 | — |
| LMArena French | 1190 | — |
| LMArena German | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1144 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1137 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1200 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 52.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1178 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1197 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1207 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1206 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 841 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1193 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2 9B better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Gemma 2 9B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and StarCoder 2 3B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.