Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.2 vs StarCoder 2 15B

Mistral Small 3.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#280); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

38.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.2 and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
Mistral Small 3.2StarCoder 2 15B
ProviderMistral AINVIDIA
Noometry Index31.238.1
Released2025-06-202024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.0938—
Output $ / M tokens$0.25—
Results tracked67

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2StarCoder 2 15B
BigCodeBench Complete—38.4%
HumanEval+—37.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2StarCoder 2 15B
Epoch Capabilities Index131.74105
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
Chess Puzzles1%—
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2StarCoder 2 15B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202530.3%—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2StarCoder 2 15B
GPQA Diamond49.1%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%
MMLU—64.1%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2StarCoder 2 15B
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1255—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Mistral Small 3.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#280); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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