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Hugging Face released on Feb 20, 2024 Open weights (restricted use)

StarCoder 2 15B

StarCoder 2 15B (Hugging Face) was released on Feb 20, 2024. In the Epoch AI capability ranking (ECI), it ranks #235 out of 267 models, with 105.09. Against models of the same generation, its best result is on GSM8K: 57.7%, #9 of 33.

#235 of 267 in the ECI ranking
105.09 ECI, the Epoch AI capability index
no match Arena ELO, human preference
not measured LiveBench, overall average from 0 to 100
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What the tests say

Where StarCoder 2 15B stands out and where it falls behind, by the numbers

StarCoder 2 15B has published results on 4 tests compiled by Epoch AI. The yardstick here is its generation: its position among the models released between May 26, 2023 and May 20, 2024 that took the same test. Against the whole archive, which includes 2023 models, a recent release lands near the top of almost everything, and that says nothing.

Where it stands out

Tests where it sits in the top third of its own generation.

GSM8K57.7%
#9 of 33 in its generation · #20 of 54 overall

Where it falls behind

Tests where it sits in the bottom half of its own generation.

WinoGrande64.3%
#28 of 35 in its generation · record: 89.2% (Llama 3.1-405B)
ARC (AI2)47.2%
#27 of 40 in its generation · record: 95.3% (DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025))
MMLU64.1%
#27 of 53 in its generation · record: 88.1% (GPT-4o (May 2024))
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TestScoreIn its generationOverallTest record
MMLU 64.1% #27 / 53 #51 / 92 88.1% GPT-4o (May 2024)
ARC (AI2) 47.2% #27 / 40 #45 / 65 95.3% DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025)
WinoGrande 64.3% #28 / 35 #49 / 61 89.2% Llama 3.1-405B
GSM8K 57.7% #9 / 33 #20 / 54 92.0% GPT-4 (Mar 2023)

For each test, the model's best effort level counts, as in the ranking. Source of the scores: Epoch AI, under CC BY 4.0.

Comparison

What to compare StarCoder 2 15B with

The models from other labs closest in capability and released in the same period, at most two per lab. Click any of them to see its page.

ModelLabECIELOLiveBenchRelease
Qwen-7B Alibaba 106.91 n/a n/a Sep 28, 2023
Llama 2-13B Meta AI 106.25 n/a n/a Jul 18, 2023
Llama 2-34B Meta AI 105.29 n/a n/a Jul 18, 2023
StarCoder 2 15B Hugging Face 105.09 n/a n/a Feb 20, 2024
Yi 6B 01.AI 104.86 n/a n/a Nov 22, 2023
Baichuan2-13B Baichuan 103.29 n/a n/a Sep 6, 2023
internlm-7b 102.97 n/a n/a Jul 5, 2023
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Other models from Hugging Face

The models from the same lab closest in time, newest first.

ModelReleaseECIELOLiveBenchAccess
StarCoder 2 3B Feb 22, 2024 88.92 n/a n/a Open weights (restricted use)
StarCoder 2 15B Feb 20, 2024 105.09 n/a n/a Open weights (restricted use)
StarCoder 2 7B Feb 20, 2024 93.70 n/a n/a Open weights (restricted use)
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Frequently asked questions

What people ask about StarCoder 2 15B

Where does StarCoder 2 15B rank among AI models?

In the ROO3 AI Benchmark, ordered by the Epoch AI ECI, StarCoder 2 15B ranks #235 out of 267 models, with an ECI of 105.09. The ECI is a composite index that combines several hard benchmarks into a single scale. The position changes when a new model comes out, and the page is refreshed six times a day.

What is StarCoder 2 15B best at?

Against models of the same generation (released up to 9 months before and up to 3 months after it), the best relative results of StarCoder 2 15B are: GSM8K (#9 of 33). The yardstick is its position among the models of that period that took the same test.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

From the same three sources as the ranking, all openly licensed: Epoch AI (ECI and individual tests, CC BY 4.0), Arena (human-preference ELO, CC BY 4.0) and LiveBench (overall average, CC BY-SA 4.0). ROO3 does not measure any model. When the page shows a figure published by the maker itself, it appears in the written analysis, labeled as the maker's, and never enters the ranking.

Sources

Where each number comes from

Epoch AI, "AI Benchmarking Hub". Published at epoch.ai. Data under the CC BY 4.0 licence, reordered by roo3.co.

The Arena (LMArena) leaderboard, from the public lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, under the CC BY 4.0 licence. We are not affiliated with the Arena.

LiveBench, by the LiveBench team, published at livebench.ai under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The overall average is recomputed by roo3.co with the same formula as the website (average of the categories), and those numbers stay under CC BY-SA 4.0. We are not affiliated with LiveBench.

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