Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs StarCoder 2 15B

Claude Opus 4.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#47); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 15B NVIDIA

38.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 15B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 54.8 to 36.6.
  • StarCoder 2 15B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
Claude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index50.538.1
Released2025-11-012024-02-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked697

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
LMArena Coding1504—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.4%
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—
HumanEval+—37.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09105
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1476—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
ForecastBench60.7—
WinoGrande—64.3%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1463—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
LMArena Expert1487—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.2%
MMLU—64.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Non-English1438—
LMArena Chinese1470—
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1449—
LMArena Japanese1416—
LMArena Korean1424—
LMArena Russian1447—
LMArena Spanish1458—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Instruction Following1478—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
CL-bench21.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1480—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), StarCoder 2 15B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5StarCoder 2 15B
LMArena Text1451—
LMArena Creative Writing1445—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—
LMArena Multi-Turn1466—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#47); StarCoder 2 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or StarCoder 2 15B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and StarCoder 2 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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