StarCoder2 3B
BigCode's 3B transparent code model — trained on The Stack v2 with full data provenance.
About
StarCoder2-3B (February 2024) is the small member of BigCode's StarCoder2 family: trained on The Stack v2 (900B+ tokens with full provenance and opt-out honor), with transparent data governance — the project's signature virtue.
Licensed under BigCode OpenRAIL-M: not OSI open source — use restrictions apply (including the BigCode-specific use restrictions). 42.7k Hugging Face downloads. A 2024 3B model superseded by Qwen2.5-Coder-7B on quality, but the data-transparency story (every training file traceable, opt-outs respected) remains unmatched and matters for compliance-sensitive organizations. The 15B sibling is already in the catalog (starcoder2-15b).
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-claimed at release (2024): competitive HumanEval for 3B — treat as provider-claimed and dated. No current leaderboard presence.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier). The data-transparency story (The Stack v2 provenance, opt-outs honored) is unmatched and valuable for compliance-sensitive orgs. Docked four points: (1) BigCode OpenRAIL-M is not open source; (2) 2024-era 3B, superseded on quality; (3) benchmark claims are dated provider reports; (4) 16K context. Choose for provenance, not performance.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 4.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 5.3/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · HF downloads 42,735 (peer-normalized)
- · released 958 days ago
- · manual review: data transparency unmatched; 2024-era 3B superseded on quality; license: BigCode OpenRAIL-M — not OSI; use restrictions apply