# Mistral Large vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Mistral Large has enough public results to be ranked (#258); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 38.3% for Mistral Large and 27.7% for StarCoder 2 7B.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 258 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $6 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | 29.9% |
| 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: 28.4 (#83)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | 92.92 |
| 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: 17.1 (#285)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 80% | 38.8% |
| 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 | — | 38.7% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | — |
| LMArena French | 1324 | — |
| LMArena German | 1254 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1262 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 7B?

Mistral Large has enough public results to be ranked (#258); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

They score almost the same on coding (33.8 vs 34.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

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