# Mistral Large vs StarCoder 2 3B

> Mistral Large has enough public results to be ranked (#263); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-vs-starcoder-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 38.3% for Mistral Large and 21.4% for StarCoder 2 3B.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 263 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $6 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
- StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | 27.4% |
| SciCode | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | 88.76 |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| DTBench | 65.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 16.7% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1262 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 50.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 80% | 36.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | — |
| LMArena French | 1325 | — |
| LMArena German | 1254 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 69% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 985 | — |
| WildBench | 80.1% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 39.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Mistral Large has enough public results to be ranked (#263); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Mistral Large or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.3 vs 33.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and StarCoder 2 3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.