# DeepSeek V4 Flash vs StarCoder 2 7B

> DeepSeek V4 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v4-flash-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek V4 Flash leads 47.6 to 34.2.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek V4 Flash | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 53.6 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 32 | — |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 47.6 (#56)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 18.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1581 | — |
| SciCode | 49.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 63% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1457 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,306 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.7 (#25)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.51 | 92.92 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.4% | — |
| SimpleBench | 61.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 89.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 89% | — |
| CritPt | 16.6% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 33% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 34% | — |
| DTBench | 90.9% | — |
| LMCA | 41.7% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 60.0 (#31)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 57.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 24.4% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 76.5% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 94.4% | — |
| ProofBench | 56% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1427 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 55.5 (#43)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 91% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1441 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.2 (#71)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1420 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1467 | — |
| LMArena French | 1438 | — |
| LMArena German | 1418 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1403 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1383 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1428 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1437 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 75.1 (#76)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1421 | — |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 43.8 (#81)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 64.0 (#59)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1432 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1403 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1559 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1449 | — |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek V4 Flash better than StarCoder 2 7B?

DeepSeek V4 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#32); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek V4 Flash or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Flash and StarCoder 2 7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Flash has 41 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.