LLM Reference

StarCoder2 3B

Released
2024-07-04
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago
Open Source

StarCoder2 3B 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
Released
2024-07-04
Context
8k
Parameters
3B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

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Santa Clara, California, United States
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Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.100
Input / 1M
$0.100

Cheapest of 1 route · Fireworks AI

About

StarCoder2-3B is a 3-billion parameter large language model developed by the BigCode project, focusing on code generation tasks. Its architecture features a transformer decoder with grouped-query and sliding window attention, trained using the Fill-in-the-Middle objective. The model supports a context window of 16,384 tokens, allowing it to handle large contexts for tasks like code completion and translation across 17 programming languages. However, it is not designed for direct instruction-following. Its efficiency is enhanced by a Grouped Query Attention mechanism and availability in quantized versions for lower memory usage, though users should note that the generated code may not be error-free 25.

StarCoder2 3B is an open-source model in the StarCoder 2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Fireworks AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.1 input and $0.1 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for StarCoder2 3B 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$0.100$0.100
Provisioned

Capabilities

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