StarCoder
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- BigCode/Hugging Face
- C · CEO & Politics
- [UNKNOWN]
- D · Date
- 2023
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- France / USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Raymond Li (Co-lead author), Loubna Ben Allal (Co-lead author), Leandro von Werra (Senior author), Harm de Vries (Senior author)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Code LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, BigCode OpenRAIL-M; accept agreement to download)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- BigCode's StarCoder, a 15.5B-parameter open code model with an 8K context, fill-in-the-middle infilling and multi-query attention for fast inference; its base, StarCoderBase, was trained on 1 trillion tokens from The Stack (permissively licensed GitHub code in more than 80 programming languages plus GitHub issues, commits and notebooks), and StarCoder adds 35B Python tokens, reaching 40% pass@1 on HumanEval with prompting. Released under the BigCode OpenRAIL-M license.
- S · Stock / Status
- Research / open-source project
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @BigCodeProject
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Code LLM from BigCode/Hugging Face, released 2023.
Data completeness 81% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“StarCoder.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/starcoder.html