# Claude 3.5 Haiku vs StarCoder 2 3B

> Claude 3.5 Haiku has enough public results to be ranked (#315); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-starcoder-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 3B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 315 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265)
- StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | 21.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | 88.76 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | — |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1244 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 74.3% | 36.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | — |
| LMArena French | 1264 | — |
| LMArena German | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Claude 3.5 Haiku has enough public results to be ranked (#315); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 33.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and StarCoder 2 3B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.