Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs StarCoder 2 3B
Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
NVIDIASide by side
| Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 28.2 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 88.76 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Ministral 8B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and StarCoder 2 3B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.