# Llama 2-13B vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Llama 2-13B has enough public results to be ranked (#304); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-13b-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B 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 34.2 to 30.4.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.1 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 304 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1062 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 105.8 | 92.92 |
| WinoGrande | 72.8% | 57.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1051 | — |
| DTBench | 42.2% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 58.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 80.7% | — |
| LAMBADA | 76.5% | — |
| PIQA | 80.8% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 36.9% | 32.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1065 | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.3% | 38.7% |
| MMLU | 55.6% | 38.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1030 | — |
| BoolQ | 82.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 57% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-13B: —
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 55.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1024 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1001 | — |
| LMArena French | 1043 | — |
| LMArena German | 1009 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 894 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 953 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1055 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1086 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1046 | — |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1064 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1085 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1047 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1050 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-13B better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Llama 2-13B has enough public results to be ranked (#304); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Llama 2-13B or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and StarCoder 2 7B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.