Model comparison
Llama 13b vs StarCoder 2 15B
Llama 13b has enough public results to be ranked (#348); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
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NVIDIASummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.6 to 21.4.
Side by side
| Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2023-02-24 | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 21 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads
Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 683 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.58 | 105 |
| WinoGrande | 73% | 64.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 728 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.9% | — |
| HellaSwag | 79.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 75.2% | — |
| PIQA | 80.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 20.6% | 57.7% |
| LMArena Math | 838 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Llama 13b: —, StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 52.7% | 47.2% |
| MMLU | 47.7% | 64.1% |
| BoolQ | 78.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 13b: —, StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 43.3% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 819 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 781 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 834 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 794 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 753 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 13b better than StarCoder 2 15B?
Llama 13b has enough public results to be ranked (#348); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Llama 13b or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and StarCoder 2 15B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.