# Granite 4.0 Micro vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Granite 4.0 Micro 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/granite-4-0-micro-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Granite 4.0 Micro | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 312 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.017 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Granite 4.0 Micro: —
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 92.92 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 67% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#312); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and StarCoder 2 7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.