Model comparison

Magistral Small vs StarCoder 2 15B

Magistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#296); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

38.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 15B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

Magistral Small and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
Magistral SmallStarCoder 2 15B
ProviderMistral AINVIDIA
Noometry Index30.238.1
Released2025-06-102024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output40K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked107

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Small leads

Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallStarCoder 2 15B
SciCode35.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.4%
HumanEval+—37.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallStarCoder 2 15B
Epoch Capabilities Index133.19105
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark6.3%—
ARC-AGI-15%—
CritPt0.3%—
Chess Puzzles3%—
DTBench61.3%—
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallStarCoder 2 15B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202530%—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallStarCoder 2 15B
GPQA Diamond56.1%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%
MMLU—64.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Magistral Small better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Magistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#296); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Magistral Small or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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