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Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct vs StarCoder 2 15B
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Winner summary
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct wins on 4/6 benchmarks
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · language · math.
Category leads
general·Meta Llama 3 8B Instructknowledge·StarCoder 2 15Blanguage·Meta Llama 3 8B Instructmath·Meta Llama 3 8B Instructreasoning·StarCoder 2 15B
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
#142 by perf·no signal
StarCoder 2 15B
#240 by perf·no signal
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Meta AI
$1.50T·Tier 1
U
Unknown
private · undisclosed
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
Meta Llama 3 8B InstructStarCoder 2 15B
BBH (HuggingFace)
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct leads by +7.9
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
28.2
StarCoder 2 15B
20.4
GPQA
StarCoder 2 15B leads by +1.9
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
1.2
StarCoder 2 15B
3.1
IFEval
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct leads by +46.3
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
74.1
StarCoder 2 15B
27.8
MATH Level 5
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct leads by +2.7
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
8.7
StarCoder 2 15B
6.0
MMLU-PRO
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct leads by +14.6
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
29.6
StarCoder 2 15B
15.0
MUSR
StarCoder 2 15B leads by +1.3
Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct
1.6
StarCoder 2 15B
2.9
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct | StarCoder 2 15B |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 28.2 | 20.4 |
GPQA | 1.2 | 3.1 |
IFEval | 74.1 | 27.8 |
MATH Level 5 | 8.7 | 6.0 |
MMLU-PRO | 29.6 | 15.0 |
MUSR | 1.6 | 2.9 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | |
U StarCoder 2 15B | — | — | — | — |