Model comparison
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning vs StarCoder 2 15B
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#155); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 40.4 to 36.6.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | StarCoder 2 15B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 40.0 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2026-08-11 | 2024-02-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.05 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1375 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1337 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 105 |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |
Math Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1359 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1356 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1295 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1359 | — |
| LMArena French | 1366 | — |
| LMArena German | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1238 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1345 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1318 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1314 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201), StarCoder 2 15B: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1327 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1254 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1328 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better than StarCoder 2 15B?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#155); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and StarCoder 2 15B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.