LLM Reference

StarCoder+

Released
2023-05-09
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 60d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: conditional

StarCoder+ is released 2023-05-09 in the StarCoder family with open-weight; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 8k context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • 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
Openness
Open weights
License
BigCode OpenRAIL-MCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

Empowering responsible AI for efficient workflows

Santa Clara, California, United States
Founded 2003
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

StarCoder+ is a sophisticated large language model tailored for code generation and comprehension, developed as part of the BigCode project by Hugging Face and ServiceNow. Designed with an emphasis on responsible AI, StarCoder+ inherits capabilities from its predecessor, StarCoder, with enhancements potentially in efficiency and context processing. It excels in tasks like code generation, completion, and explanation, leveraging a decoder-only transformer architecture with Multi-Query Attention for improved performance. The model is trained on a vast dataset, "The Stack," encompassing diverse programming languages and is open-source, promoting collaborative advancements in AI-led coding solutions.

StarCoder+ is an open-weight model in the StarCoder family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. 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

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

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.

When was StarCoder+ released?

StarCoder+ was released on 2023-05-09.