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Starcoder
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RANKED #8 OF 12 CODE · OVERALL #262 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 5.7 · 36 VOICES
starcoder on Hugging Face (text generation). 9,977 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.9
6 mentions
SAD5.1
2 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 10 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Starcoder once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
15.5B parameters, a Q4_K_M GGUF is about 9.5 GB (requires ~12-14 GB VRAM with context)
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$220 USEDQ4_K_M, ~22 tok/s, 4k context offloaded
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$430 NEWQ5_K_M or Q8, ~35 tok/s, full 8k context fully offloaded
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1,750 USEDFP16 or Q8_0, ~75 tok/s, full 8k context with high throughput
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN STARCODER?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Starcoder takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~23 S | ~14 S | ~7 S |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~68 S | ~43 S | ~20 S |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~6.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.8 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~19 MIN★★★★★ | ~12 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.3 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with Starcoder. Biggest praise: help with code.
29 POSTS · 7 COMMENTS · LEMMY · REDDIT · BLOG · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (5 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Coding help disappoints some people (1 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
5 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“StarCoder 15b open-source code model beats Codex and Replit.”
- FROM GITHUB >
“feat(gguf): llama-bpe verified via a mirror; starcoder and mpt refused for cause.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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- REDDIT · 2023-12-15 · 305 UPVOTESThis week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
This week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
- REDDIT · 2023-05-04 · 109 UPVOTESStarCoder 15b open-source code model beats Codex and Replit
StarCoder 15b open-source code model beats Codex and Replit
- REDDIT · 2023-05-06 · 107 UPVOTESStarCoder-15B reaches 40.8% on HumanEval benchmark, beating the 30x bigger PaLM.
StarCoder-15B reaches 40.8% on HumanEval benchmark, beating the 30x bigger PaLM.
- REDDIT · 2023-07-05 · 88 UPVOTESNuggt: A LLM Agent the runs on WizardCoder-15B (4-bit quantised). It's time to democratise LLM Agents
Nuggt: A LLM Agent the runs on WizardCoder-15B (4-bit quantised). It's time to democratise LLM Agents
- REDDIT · 2023-07-28 · 65 UPVOTESNew Starcoder 1B, 3B, and 7B models, Each model demonstrates the strongest performance for its size across various programming languages
New Starcoder 1B, 3B, and 7B models, Each model demonstrates the strongest performance for its size across various programming languages
- REDDIT · 2024-05-13 · 53 UPVOTESWhat coding llm is the best?
What coding llm is the best?
- REDDIT · 2023-09-04 · 51 UPVOTESRefact LLM: New 1.6B Code model with 32% HumanEval, SOTA for the size
Refact LLM: New 1.6B Code model with 32% HumanEval, SOTA for the size
- BLOG · 2024-01-30 · 32 UPVOTESAccelerate StarCoder with 🤗 Optimum Intel on Xeon: Q8/Q4 and Speculative Decoding
Accelerate StarCoder with 🤗 Optimum Intel on Xeon: Q8/Q4 and Speculative Decoding
- BLOG · 2023-05-09 · 32 UPVOTESCreating a Coding Assistant with StarCoder
Creating a Coding Assistant with StarCoder
- BLOG · 2023-05-04 · 32 UPVOTESStarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code
StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code
- REDDIT · 2024-07-12 · 21 UPVOTESMake GitHub Copilot work with DeepSeek-Coder, Sonnet 3.5, Llama3, and Any Hosted or Ollama LLMs
Make GitHub Copilot work with DeepSeek-Coder, Sonnet 3.5, Llama3, and Any Hosted or Ollama LLMs
- REDDIT · 2023-05-04 · 9 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity