# Llama 4 Scout vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Llama 4 Scout has enough public results to be ranked (#323); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Scout 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 36.0 to 19.9.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 27.4 | 37.5 |
| Rank | 323 | — |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.10 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.30 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.1% | 38.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 9.1% | — |
| SciCode | 17% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 28.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.64 | 104.61 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 36.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 0.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1266 | — |
| DTBench | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 12% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |

## Math

- Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 7.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 37.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1286 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 62.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 51.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 74.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1236 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |

## Multimodal

- Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1118 | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 34.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1253 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1256 | — |
| LMArena French | 1283 | — |
| LMArena German | 1274 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1207 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1277 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | — |

## Long Context

- Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 36% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1265 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1279 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1249 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 783 | — |
| WildBench | 78% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1281 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 4 Scout better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Llama 4 Scout has enough public results to be ranked (#323); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Llama 4 Scout or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Scout and StarCoder 2 15B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Scout has 43 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.