Model comparison

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b vs StarCoder 2 3B

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#220); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

StarCoder 2 3B NVIDIA

35.8

Unranked Sparse

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Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b and StarCoder 2 3B specifications
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bStarCoder 2 3B
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)NVIDIA
Noometry Index35.135.8
Released—2024-02-22
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked117

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 33.9 (#235), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Coding1184—
BigCodeBench Complete—21.4%
HumanEval+—27.4%

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 21.8 (#188), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts1174—
Epoch Capabilities Index—88.01
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 31.3 (#196), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Math1195—
GSM8K—21.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: —, StarCoder 2 3B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bStarCoder 2 3B
ARC (AI2) Challenge—34.2%
MMLU—36.6%

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 35.6 (#241), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Non-English1169—
LMArena Chinese1175—
LMArena Russian1193—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 61.6 (#241), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1174—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 35.8 (#234), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Longer Query1181—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b: 39.9 (#240), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Text1193—
LMArena Creative Writing1182—
LMArena Multi-Turn1154—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b has enough public results to be ranked (#220); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (33.9 vs 32.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b and StarCoder 2 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b has 11 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.

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