Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs StarCoder 2 3B
Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#346); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
NVIDIASummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 3B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 3B leads 32.9 to 25.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 27.3% for Mistral 7B and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 22.9 | 35.8 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 8K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 3B leads
Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | 27.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.97 | 88.01 |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | 57.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 21.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | 34.2% |
| MMLU | 62.5% | 36.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | — |
| LMArena French | 1036 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#346); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Mistral 7B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and StarCoder 2 3B share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.