LLM Reference

StarCoder

Released
2023-05-09
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago
Open Source

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
Specifications
Family
StarCoder
Released
2023-05-09
Context
8k
Parameters
15.5B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Empowering responsible AI for efficient workflows

Santa Clara, California, United States
Founded 2003
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.200
Input / 1M
$0.200

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-source 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.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Fireworks AI$0.200$0.200
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Capabilities

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Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

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Migration checks

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