StarCoder2
600 languages at two gigabytes, under a licence whose conditions you have to pass on to your own users.
still the best small multi-language coder and two and a half years old — with commercial permission that comes with strings attached to your own terms of service.
trained on the stack v2 across more than 600 programming languages, with native fill-in-the-middle, at sizes from 3b to 15b — roughly 2gb to 9gb quantised. bigcode's paper reports the 15b matching or beating codellama-34b, a model more than twice its size. for breadth of language support at local scale nothing here competes.
the licence is openrail-m and it is not what people assume. commercial use is permitted, and attachment a attaches binding use restrictions you must pass into your own terms of service for your end users: no malware, no verifiably false or harmful disinformation, no impersonation for deception, no undisclosed fully-automated decisions affecting people's legal rights, and public-facing generated content must intelligibly disclose that it is machine-generated. the model card doesn't spell those out — the attachment does.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- coding llms
- pricing
- free (openrail-m)
- website
- huggingface.co
still the best small multi-language coder and two and a half years old — with commercial permission that comes with strings attached to your own terms of service.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.