# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs StarCoder 2 3B

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#246); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-starcoder-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 55.1% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 246 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | 27.4% |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | 88.76 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 82.4% | 21.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 77.9% | 36.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | — |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#246); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 33.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and StarCoder 2 3B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.