# phi-3-medium 14B vs StarCoder 2 15B

> phi-3-medium 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#306); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-3-medium-14b-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. phi-3-medium 14B scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 15B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 48.7% for phi-3-medium 14B and 38.4% for StarCoder 2 15B.

## Snapshot

| | phi-3-medium 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.7 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 306 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Complete | 48.7% | 38.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 37.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Reasoning

- phi-3-medium 14B: —
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 121.23 | 105 |
| WinoGrande | 81.5% | 64.3% |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 81.4% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.4% | — |

## Math

- phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 17.6% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | phi-3-medium 14B | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 91.6% | 47.2% |
| MMLU | 78% | 64.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 27.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 87.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is phi-3-medium 14B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

phi-3-medium 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#306); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is phi-3-medium 14B or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (36.8 vs 36.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.