# Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#292); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-8b-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.7 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 292 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1210 | — |
| DTBench | 50% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 92.92 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1207 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1185 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1044 | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1215 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1231 | — |
| LMArena French | 1233 | — |
| LMArena German | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1140 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1236 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1212 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1226 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1185 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#292); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.9 vs 34.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and StarCoder 2 7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.