CodeLlama 7B

CodeLlama 7B is Meta's 7-billion-parameter code-generation model, released August 24, 2023. It is produced by continuing training of Llama 2 7B on approximately 500 billion tokens of code-heavy data. The model supports code completion, fill-in-the-middle (FIM) infilling—predicting code within an existing structure—and natural language to code translation. The listing carries a 100K-token context, so treat it as a long-context hosted listing and verify the selected provider's actual limit before relying on full-window code prompts.

CodeLlama 7B handles multiple programming languages commonly represented in public code repositories, with strength in Python, C, C++, Java, PHP, TypeScript, C#, and Bash. The 7B scale makes it the most lightweight member of the CodeLlama family suitable for IDE integration, local self-hosting, and latency-sensitive inference pipelines. It fits in approximately 14GB VRAM in FP16, enabling single-GPU deployment while still leaving room for extended repository snippets when a host exposes the full 100K row context.

The model is available as open weights on Hugging Face (meta-llama/CodeLlama-7b-hf) under Meta's Code Llama Community License, and is hosted on Together AI, Fireworks AI, Baseten, Azure AI Foundry, and Replicate. Teams needing Python-specific specialization should evaluate CodeLlama 7B Python; those requiring stronger general code capability can scale to CodeLlama 13B or 34B. For new deployments, later code models such as DeepSeek Coder V2 or Qwen3-Coder offer substantially better benchmark performance.