# o1-mini vs StarCoder 2 7B

> o1-mini has enough public results to be ranked (#235); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 7B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 235 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 89% | 29.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | 93.56 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1358 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | — |
| LMArena French | 1293 | — |
| LMArena German | 1278 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | — |

## Instruction Following

- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | — |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1-mini better than StarCoder 2 7B?

o1-mini has enough public results to be ranked (#235); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is o1-mini or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.5 vs 34.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do o1-mini and StarCoder 2 7B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.