# Gemini 1.0 Pro vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Gemini 1.0 Pro has enough public results to be ranked (#327); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-0-pro-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.0 to 31.6.
- StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.0 Pro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 37.5 |
| Rank | 327 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.0 Pro: 31.6 (#270)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.0 Pro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 55.5% | 37.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1108 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| MBPP+ | 61.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.0 Pro: 16.4 (#292)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.0 Pro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 116.97 | 104.61 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1109 | — |
| DTBench | 45.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |

## Math

- Gemini 1.0 Pro: 8.7 (#315)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.0 Pro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.1% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1132 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.5 (#286)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.0 Pro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70% | 64.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 34% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1059 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.5 (#247)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.0 Pro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1138 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1124 | — |
| LMArena French | 1144 | — |
| LMArena German | 1125 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1023 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1118 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.9 (#262)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.0 Pro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1114 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#244)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.0 Pro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1132 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.2 (#259)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.0 Pro | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1149 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1130 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1139 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has enough public results to be ranked (#327); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Gemini 1.0 Pro or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.0 Pro and StarCoder 2 15B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.