Model comparison

Magistral Small vs StarCoder 2 7B

Magistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#289); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Magistral Small Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #289 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 7B NVIDIA

36.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Magistral Small leads 37.8 to 34.2.

Side by side

Magistral Small and StarCoder 2 7B specifications
Magistral SmallStarCoder 2 7B
ProviderMistral AINVIDIA
Noometry Index29.936.5
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: 37.8 (#172), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallStarCoder 2 7B
SciCode35.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.7%
HumanEval+—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallStarCoder 2 7B
Epoch Capabilities Index133.1992.92
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark6.3%—
ARC-AGI-15%—
CritPt0.3%—
Chess Puzzles3%—
DTBench61.3%—
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallStarCoder 2 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202530%—
GSM8K—32.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallStarCoder 2 7B
GPQA Diamond56.1%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—38.7%
MMLU—38.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Magistral Small better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Magistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#289); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Magistral Small or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and StarCoder 2 7B share?

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

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