Model comparison
GPT-6 Sol vs StarCoder 2 3B
GPT-6 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#12); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-6 Sol 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 GPT-6 Sol leads 60.1 to 33.5.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 61.8 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2026-09-22 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 45 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-6 Sol leads
GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 68.8% | — |
| FrontierCode | 49.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1688 | — |
| SciCode | 57.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1447 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 2,462 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 54.3% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 26.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 14,428 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 162.72 | 88.76 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 90.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 95.5% | — |
| CritPt | 30.9% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 53.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1418 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 56% | — |
| DTBench | 97.3% | — |
| LMCA | 59.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 89.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 90% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 83% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1402 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 94.3% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 60.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1439 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1245 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 36.9% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 58.3% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1385 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1405 | — |
| LMArena French | 1410 | — |
| LMArena German | 1390 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1385 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1401 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1384 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1412 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1411 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Sol | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1395 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1378 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2125 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1412 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-6 Sol better than StarCoder 2 3B?
GPT-6 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#12); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is GPT-6 Sol or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.1 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-6 Sol and StarCoder 2 3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-6 Sol has 45 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.