Model comparison

StarCoder 2 15B vs StarCoder 2 3B

Neither StarCoder 2 15B nor StarCoder 2 3B has enough public benchmark results to be ranked yet; the rows below show what has been published.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

37.5

Unranked Sparse

StarCoder 2 3B NVIDIA

35.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. StarCoder 2 15B scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.0 to 32.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 38.4% for StarCoder 2 15B and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.

Side by side

StarCoder 2 15B and StarCoder 2 3B specifications
StarCoder 2 15BStarCoder 2 3B
ProviderNVIDIANVIDIA
Noometry Index37.535.8
Released2024-02-202024-02-22
WeightsOpenOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked77

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 15B leads

StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0, StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkStarCoder 2 15BStarCoder 2 3B
BigCodeBench Complete38.4%21.4%
HumanEval+37.8%27.4%

Reasoning Not comparable

StarCoder 2 15B: —, StarCoder 2 3B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkStarCoder 2 15BStarCoder 2 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index104.6188.01
WinoGrande64.3%57.1%

Math Not comparable

StarCoder 2 15B: —, StarCoder 2 3B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkStarCoder 2 15BStarCoder 2 3B
GSM8K57.7%21.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

StarCoder 2 15B: —, StarCoder 2 3B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkStarCoder 2 15BStarCoder 2 3B
ARC (AI2) Challenge47.2%34.2%
MMLU64.1%36.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is StarCoder 2 15B better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Neither StarCoder 2 15B nor StarCoder 2 3B has enough public benchmark results to be ranked yet; the rows below show what has been published.

Is StarCoder 2 15B or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do StarCoder 2 15B and StarCoder 2 3B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. StarCoder 2 15B has 7 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.

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