StarCoder
StarCoder is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- StarCoder
- Released
- 2023-05-09
- Context
- 8k
- Parameters
- 15.5B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- BigCode OpenRAIL-MCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
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Cheapest of 1 route · Fireworks AI
About
StarCoder is a specialized large language model developed for code generation and understanding, as part of a collaboration between Hugging Face and ServiceNow under the BigCode project. It utilizes a decoder-only transformer architecture with multi-query attention and an 8192-token context window. The base model, StarCoderBase, contains 15.5 billion parameters and is trained on 1 trillion tokens sourced from GitHub data, covering various programming languages and use cases. StarCoder is a fine-tuned version that includes an additional 35 billion Python-specific tokens, achieving excellent performance in Python-related tasks. It is multilingual, capable of acting as a technical assistant through dialogue and facilitating code autocompletion, modification, and debugging. Released under the OpenRAIL-M license, the model supports open access and distribution. StarCoder 2 further extends its capabilities, supporting over 600 programming languages and incorporating architectural improvements for enhanced performance.
StarCoder is an open-weight model. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Fireworks AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.2 input and $0.2 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for StarCoder yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of StarCoder?
StarCoder has a context window of 8k tokens.
How much does StarCoder cost?
StarCoder is available at $0.2/1M input tokens through Fireworks AI.
When was StarCoder released?
StarCoder was released on 2023-05-09.
Which providers offer StarCoder?
StarCoder is available from 1 provider: Fireworks AI.
Empowering responsible AI for efficient workflows
Cheapest of 1 route · Fireworks AI