# GPT-3.5-turbo vs StarCoder 2 7B

> GPT-3.5-turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#350); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-3-5-turbo-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-3.5-turbo scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.8 to 23.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 50.6% for GPT-3.5-turbo and 27.7% for StarCoder 2 7B.
- StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 23.2 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 350 | — |
| Context | 16K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $1.50 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.6% | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | 70.7% | 29.9% |
| WeirdML | 3.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1136 | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.7% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-3.5-turbo: —
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 21.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.55 | 93.56 |
| WinoGrande | 81.6% | 57.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1108 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 3% | — |
| DTBench | 48.5% | — |
| LMCA | 9.7% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 58.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 61.6% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 57% | — |
| ForecastBench | 50.4 | — |

## Math

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 57.8% | 32.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1142 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 15.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.4% | 38.7% |
| MMLU | 71.4% | 38.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | 28% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1070 | — |
| BoolQ | 87% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 86% | — |
| TriviaQA | 85.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1108 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1075 | — |
| LMArena French | 1118 | — |
| LMArena German | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1043 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1019 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1123 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1121 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1119 | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1121 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1125 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1092 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 451 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1117 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-3.5-turbo better than StarCoder 2 7B?

GPT-3.5-turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#350); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is GPT-3.5-turbo or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 23.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-3.5-turbo and StarCoder 2 7B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-3.5-turbo has 44 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.