# Gemma 2 27B vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#312); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2-27b-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 27B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 52.5% for Gemma 2 27B and 27.7% for StarCoder 2 7B.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2 27B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 312 | — |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.65 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.65 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | 27.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1211 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.08 | 93.56 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1198 | — |
| DTBench | 48% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 47.9% | — |
| LMCA | 7.1% | — |
| LiveBench | 38.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 26.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1212 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 27.9% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 75.7% | 38.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | 36.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 27.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1172 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1217 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1221 | — |
| LMArena French | 1247 | — |
| LMArena German | 1209 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1228 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 58.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1206 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1231 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1231 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1241 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1224 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 32.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2 27B better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#312); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Gemma 2 27B or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.1 vs 34.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 27B and StarCoder 2 7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 27B has 34 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.