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StarCoder2 15B
BigCode's collaborative code model. 15B parameters trained on 600+ programming languages; strong fit for IDE completion and self-hosted code search.
- Modality
- Code
- License
- BigCode OpenRAIL-M (Open weights)
- Parameter size
- 15B
- Context window
- 16,384 tokens
- Released
- February 28, 2024
- Last verified
- October 28, 2026
- Runs locally
- Yes
Strengths
- 600+ programming languages
- Permissive licensing for commercial use
- Fits on a 24GB consumer GPU at quantization
Weaknesses
- Older than the 2024 wave of code models — newer alternatives often outperform
- 16k context is small for repo-level work
Try it
| Where | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | weights | OpenRAIL-M |
| Ollama | local | ollama run starcoder2:15b |
Official sources
- Model card model
- Paper paper
Change log
- — Deprecated with no successor — BigCode has published no model since April 2024, and current open coding models (Qwen3-Coder-Next, Devstral Small 2) far outclass it with 256K context against 16K. Dated to this review because no lab deprecation or successor release exists to date it by.
- — Verified current. No StarCoder3 exists. BigCode still ships evaluation datasets but has published no new model since 2024, so dormancy here is not staleness.
- — Initial entry.
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