Model comparison
StarCoder 2 7B vs Yi-Lightning
Yi-Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#209); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.8 to 27.4.
- StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| StarCoder 2 7B | Yi-Lightning | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.0 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-20 | 2024-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding StarCoder 2 7B leads
StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8, Yi-Lightning: 27.4 (#320)
| Benchmark | StarCoder 2 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1312 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.7% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 29.9% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
StarCoder 2 7B: —, Yi-Lightning: 25.9 (#139)
| Benchmark | StarCoder 2 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1302 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 93.56 | — |
| WinoGrande | 57.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
StarCoder 2 7B: —, Yi-Lightning: 36.2 (#172)
| Benchmark | StarCoder 2 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1300 |
| GSM8K | 32.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
StarCoder 2 7B: —, Yi-Lightning: 35.4 (#185)
| Benchmark | StarCoder 2 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1286 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 38.7% | — |
| MMLU | 38.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
StarCoder 2 7B: —, Yi-Lightning: 42.2 (#196)
| Benchmark | StarCoder 2 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1320 |
| LMArena French | — | 1305 |
| LMArena German | — | 1267 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1228 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1192 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1315 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
StarCoder 2 7B: —, Yi-Lightning: 67.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | StarCoder 2 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1278 |
Long Context Not comparable
StarCoder 2 7B: —, Yi-Lightning: 39.4 (#181)
| Benchmark | StarCoder 2 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1297 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
StarCoder 2 7B: —, Yi-Lightning: 50.2 (#184)
| Benchmark | StarCoder 2 7B | Yi-Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1302 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1311 |
Frequently asked questions
Is StarCoder 2 7B better than Yi-Lightning?
Yi-Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#209); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is StarCoder 2 7B or Yi-Lightning better for coding?
StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do StarCoder 2 7B and Yi-Lightning share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. StarCoder 2 7B has 7 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Lightning has 18.