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Claude 3 Sonnet vs StarCoder 2 15B
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Winner summary
Claude 3 Sonnet wins on 2/2 benchmarks
Claude 3 Sonnet wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.
Category leads
knowledge·Claude 3 Sonnet
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude 3 Sonnet
#266 by perf·no signal
StarCoder 2 15B
#274 by perf·no signal
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
U
Unknown
private · undisclosed
Head to head
2 benchmarks · 2 models
Claude 3 SonnetStarCoder 2 15B
MMLU
Claude 3 Sonnet leads by +15.7
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
Claude 3 Sonnet
67.9
StarCoder 2 15B
52.1
Winogrande
Claude 3 Sonnet leads by +21.6
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
Claude 3 Sonnet
50.2
StarCoder 2 15B
28.6
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
MMLU Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge. | 67.9 | 52.1 |
Winogrande WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs. | 50.2 | 28.6 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | |
U StarCoder 2 15B | — | — | — | — |