# Mistral Medium vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Mistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#218); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 218 | — |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| SciCode | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | — |
| DTBench | 75.5% | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 93.56 |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1408 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | — |
| LMArena French | 1459 | — |
| LMArena German | 1432 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | — |

## FAQ

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

Mistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#218); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

They score almost the same on coding (34.2 vs 34.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.