# Mistral 7B vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B 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 26.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 27.3% for Mistral 7B and 38.4% for StarCoder 2 15B.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 351 | — |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | 37.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | 105 |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | 64.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |

## Math

- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 57.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | 47.2% |
| MMLU | 62.5% | 64.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | — |
| LMArena French | 1037 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Mistral 7B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.