# Mistral vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Mistral has enough public results to be ranked (#303); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 303 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 105 |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |

## Math

- Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1180 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | — |
| LMArena French | 1180 | — |
| LMArena German | 1155 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | — |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | — |

## FAQ

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

Mistral has enough public results to be ranked (#303); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.