Model comparison
GPT-4 Turbo vs StarCoder 2 3B
GPT-4 Turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#292); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 58.2% for GPT-4 Turbo and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2023-11-06 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $30 | — |
| Results tracked | 36 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | 27.4% |
| WeirdML | 18% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: —, StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | 88.76 |
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1272 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 81.3% | 36.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | — |
| LMArena French | 1276 | — |
| LMArena German | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4 Turbo better than StarCoder 2 3B?
GPT-4 Turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#292); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is GPT-4 Turbo or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.8 vs 33.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and StarCoder 2 3B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.