Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs StarCoder 2 3B

Claude Opus 4.7 has enough public results to be ranked (#19); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 3B NVIDIA

36.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 59.6 to 33.5.
  • StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and StarCoder 2 3B specifications
Claude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index58.336.3
Released2026-04-142024-02-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked667

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
LMArena Coding1518—
MirrorCode31.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—21.4%
ALE-Bench1,323—
HumanEval+—27.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index156.2588.76
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1506—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
ForecastBench60.3—
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench54%—
LMArena Math1499—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—
GSM8K—21.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
LMArena Expert1521—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—34.2%
MMLU—36.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Non-English1480—
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1503—
LMArena German1495—
LMArena Japanese1472—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1494—
LMArena Spanish1495—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1498—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Longer Query1505—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7StarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Text1490—
LMArena Creative Writing1486—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—
LMArena Multi-Turn1505—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Claude Opus 4.7 has enough public results to be ranked (#19); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and StarCoder 2 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.

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