Model comparison
Mistral Small vs StarCoder 2 15B
Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#243); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
NVIDIASummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 46.6% for Mistral Small and 38.4% for StarCoder 2 15B.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads
Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | 38.4% |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 105 |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1341 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 68.7% | 64.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | — |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than StarCoder 2 15B?
Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#243); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Mistral Small or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?
StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and StarCoder 2 15B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.