# Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 vs StarCoder 2 15B

> Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has enough public results to be ranked (#274); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-june-vs-starcoder-2-15b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 15B leads 36.0 to 31.2.

## Snapshot

| | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 30.7 | 37.5 |
| Rank | 274 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.2 (#275)
- StarCoder 2 15B: 36.0

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1093 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 37.8% |

## Reasoning

- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 19.9 (#229)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1088 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 104.61 |
| WinoGrande | — | 64.3% |

## Math

- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 30.4 (#209)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1152 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 57.7% |

## Knowledge

- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 28.1 (#240)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1051 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.2% |
| MMLU | — | 64.1% |

## Multilingual

- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 26.0 (#277)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1013 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1033 | — |
| LMArena German | 1031 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 954 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 880 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1019 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 54.3 (#277)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1058 | — |

## Long Context

- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.6 (#272)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1042 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 29.7 (#289)
- StarCoder 2 15B: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1080 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1045 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1049 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has enough public results to be ranked (#274); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 15B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 and StarCoder 2 15B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has 15 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.