# Gemma 3 4B vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Gemma 3 4B has enough public results to be ranked (#320); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-3-4b-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 27.9 | 37.5 |
| Rank | 320 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.04 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.08 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1230 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 19.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 116.02 | 104.61 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 25.2% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1253 | — |
| DTBench | 50.9% | — |
| LMCA | 2.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |

## Math

- Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 7.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1239 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 23.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1273 | — |
| LMArena German | 1281 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1294 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1274 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1291 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1270 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1255 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 3 4B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Gemma 3 4B has enough public results to be ranked (#320); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Gemma 3 4B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.3 vs 36.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.