Model comparison

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs StarCoder 2 15B

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#256); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct IBM

31.8

Rank #256 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

37.5

Unranked Sparse

Side by side

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
Granite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
ProviderIBMNVIDIA
Noometry Index31.837.5
Released—2024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked137

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Coding1186—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.4%
HumanEval+—37.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Hard Prompts1146—
Epoch Capabilities Index—104.61
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Math1152—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Expert1142—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%
MMLU—64.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Non-English1099—
LMArena Chinese1145—
LMArena Russian1092—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Instruction Following1131—

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Longer Query1162—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructStarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Text1150—
LMArena Creative Writing1129—
LMArena Multi-Turn1108—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#256); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and StarCoder 2 15B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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