# Llama 3.1-405B vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Llama 3.1-405B has enough public results to be ranked (#288); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-1-405b-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1-405B 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 33.1.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.7 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 288 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 21.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1291 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 7.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.75 | 105 |
| WinoGrande | 89.2% | 64.3% |
| SimpleBench | 23% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 45% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1269 | — |
| DTBench | 61.4% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 82.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.9 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89.2% | — |
| PIQA | 85.9% | — |

## Math

- Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 9.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1281 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 49.8% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | 47.2% |
| MMLU | 84.5% | 64.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 50.9% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 17.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 52.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1243 | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.7% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | — |
| LMArena French | 1279 | — |
| LMArena German | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1184 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1265 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1259 | — |

## Long Context

- Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1284 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1262 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 870 | — |
| WildBench | 78.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1297 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3.1-405B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Llama 3.1-405B has enough public results to be ranked (#288); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Llama 3.1-405B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1-405B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1-405B has 42 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.