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Llama 3 70B Instruct vs StarCoder 2 15B
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Winner summary
Llama 3 70B Instruct wins on 2/2 benchmarks
Llama 3 70B Instruct wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.
Category leads
knowledge·Llama 3 70B Instruct
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Llama 3 70B Instruct
#213 by perf·no signal
StarCoder 2 15B
#240 by perf·no signal
Best value
Llama 3 70B Instruct
Llama 3 70B Instruct
51.8 pts/$
$0.63/M
StarCoder 2 15B
—
no price
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Meta AI
$1.50T·Tier 1
U
Unknown
private · undisclosed
Head to head
2 benchmarks · 2 models
Llama 3 70B InstructStarCoder 2 15B
MMLU
Llama 3 70B Instruct leads by +20.3
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
Llama 3 70B Instruct
72.4
StarCoder 2 15B
52.1
Winogrande
Llama 3 70B Instruct leads by +38.4
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
Llama 3 70B Instruct
67.0
StarCoder 2 15B
28.6
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Llama 3 70B Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
MMLU Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge. | 72.4 | 52.1 |
Winogrande WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs. | 67.0 | 28.6 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.51 | $0.74 | 8K tokens (~4 books) | $5.67 | |
U StarCoder 2 15B | — | — | — | — |