Model comparison
Mistral vs StarCoder 2 3B
Mistral has enough public results to be ranked (#303); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
NVIDIASummary
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 36.3 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Mistral: 33.8 (#250), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mistral: 22.2 (#200), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 88.76 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Mistral: 22.3 (#278), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1180 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral: 16.6 (#288), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral: 32.8 (#254), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | — |
| LMArena French | 1180 | — |
| LMArena German | 1155 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral: 52.6 (#288), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral: 35.0 (#245), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral: 37.0 (#260), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | — |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Mistral has enough public results to be ranked (#303); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Mistral or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.8 vs 33.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Mistral and StarCoder 2 3B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.