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starcoder

Available as managed deployment Licence fee LLMs bigcode Text gen 1 variants 6k dl/mo

starcoder is an open-weight language model from bigcode. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Makerbigcode
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)15.8B
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-04-24
Popularity6k downloads / month
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
text-generationHumanEval (Prompted)pass@10.408
text-generationHumanEvalpass@10.336
text-generationMBPPpass@10.527
text-generationDS-1000 (Overall Completion)pass@10.260
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (C++)pass@10.316
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (C#)pass@10.210
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (D)pass@10.136
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Go)pass@10.176
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Java)pass@10.302
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Julia)pass@10.230
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (JavaScript)pass@10.308
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Lua)pass@10.239
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (PHP)pass@10.261
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Perl)pass@10.173
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Python)pass@10.336
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (R)pass@10.155
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Ruby)pass@10.012
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Racket)pass@10.001
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Rust)pass@10.218
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Scala)pass@10.276
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Bash)pass@10.105
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (Swift)pass@10.227
text-generationMultiPL-HumanEval (TypeScript)pass@10.323

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys starcoder for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (starcoder below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"starcoder","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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