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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs StarCoder 2 3B

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 3B NVIDIA

36.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash 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 Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 50.0 to 33.5.
  • StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
Noometry Index54.136.3
Released2026-07-212024-02-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked467

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1491—
BigCodeBench Complete—21.4%
ALE-Bench715.52—
HumanEval+—27.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index154.2588.76
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1505—
GSM8K—21.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1488—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—34.2%
MMLU—36.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Vision1298—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Non-English1469—
LMArena Chinese1531—
LMArena French1504—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1476—
LMArena Korean1431—
LMArena Russian1487—
LMArena Spanish1475—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), StarCoder 2 3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and StarCoder 2 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.

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