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BigCode · Released 2025-07
StarCoder 3
BigCode collaboration's open code LLM, trained on permissively licensed code only — important for compliance-sensitive code generation.
Open RAILCommercial with caveatscode
Params (max)
15B
Variants
15B / 7B / 3B
Context window
16K tokens
MMLU
51.5
HumanEval
73.2
GSM8K
64
Min VRAM (fp16, smallest variant)
16GB
Smallest Q4 GGUF
~2GB
Languages supported
86
Pros
- ✓Provenance for code training data
- ✓Wide language coverage
- ✓Smaller variants for IDE use
Cons
- ×Lower benchmarks vs DeepSeek Coder
- ×RAIL has use restrictions
Highlights
- ●Permissive-licensed training data
- ●86 programming languages
- ●Open RAIL license
Where to download
Hugging Face: bigcode/starcoder3-15b
Or via Ollama (
ollama pull starcoder-3) or LM Studio's in-app browser.Homepage: https://huggingface.co/bigcode