# Magistral Medium vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Magistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#227); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/magistral-medium-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where Magistral Medium leads 39.1 to 34.8.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 227 | — |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $5 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 93.56 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | — |
| LMArena French | 1267 | — |
| LMArena German | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Magistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#227); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Magistral Medium or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 34.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and StarCoder 2 7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.