Model comparison

Granite 4.0 Micro vs StarCoder 2 15B

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#318); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

38.1

Unranked Sparse

Side by side

Granite 4.0 Micro and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
Granite 4.0 MicroStarCoder 2 15B
ProviderIBMNVIDIA
Noometry Index29.038.1
Released2025-10-022024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output118K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.017—
Output $ / M tokens$0.11—
Results tracked87

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroStarCoder 2 15B
BigCodeBench Complete—38.4%
HumanEval+—37.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroStarCoder 2 15B
Chess Puzzles0%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—105
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroStarCoder 2 15B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.8%—
Omni-MATH20.9%—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroStarCoder 2 15B
GPQA Diamond28.3%—
MMLU-Pro39.5%—
GPQA (HELM)30.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%
MMLU—64.1%

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroStarCoder 2 15B
IFEval84.9%—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroStarCoder 2 15B
WildBench67%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#318); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and StarCoder 2 15B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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