Model comparison
o1-mini vs StarCoder 2 3B
o1-mini has enough public results to be ranked (#235); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2024-09-12 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 35.5 (#224), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 89% | 27.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
o1-mini: 24.6 (#118), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
o1-mini: 8.8 (#346), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | 88.76 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
o1-mini: 35.4 (#186), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1358 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
o1-mini: 34.9 (#192), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
o1-mini: 43.6 (#182), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | — |
| LMArena French | 1293 | — |
| LMArena German | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
o1-mini: 66.7 (#206), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
o1-mini: 40.1 (#161), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
o1-mini: 48.4 (#202), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is o1-mini better than StarCoder 2 3B?
o1-mini has enough public results to be ranked (#235); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is o1-mini or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do o1-mini and StarCoder 2 3B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.