# Llama 13b vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Llama 13b has enough public results to be ranked (#348); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-13b-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 15B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.6 to 21.4.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 348 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 683 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.58 | 105 |
| WinoGrande | 73% | 64.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 728 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.9% | — |
| HellaSwag | 79.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 75.2% | — |
| PIQA | 80.1% | — |

## Math

- Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 20.6% | 57.7% |
| LMArena Math | 838 | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 13b: —
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 52.7% | 47.2% |
| MMLU | 47.7% | 64.1% |
| BoolQ | 78.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 13b: —
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 43.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 819 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 781 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 834 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 794 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 753 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 13b better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Llama 13b has enough public results to be ranked (#348); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Llama 13b or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and StarCoder 2 15B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.