What are the hardware requirements for Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits?

Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits requires approximately 3.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits and how large is it?

Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits is developed by RichardErkhov, a model with 3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits?

Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits by RichardErkhov — VRAM 3.2GB, 16K context

Name: Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits
Author: RichardErkhov

Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits is an open-source language model by RichardErkhov. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 3.2GB, Context: 16K, License: bigcode-openrail-m, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Arxiv:2004.05150 Arxiv:2205.14135 Arxiv:2207.14255 Arxiv:2305.13245 Arxiv:2402.19173 8-bit Bitsandbytes Code Endpoints compatible Region:us Safetensors Starcoder2

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/RichardErkhov/bigcode_-_starcoder2-3b-8bits

Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Areas:

research, commercial applications

Limitations:

Does not work well with commands like 'Write a function that computes the square root.', Generated code may be inefficient, contain bugs, or exploits.

Additional Notes

Pretraining dataset filtered for permissive licenses and code with no license.

Training Details

Data Sources:

GitHub, Arxiv, Wikipedia

Data Volume:

3+ trillion tokens

Methodology:

Fill-in-the-Middle objective

Context Length:

16384

Hardware Used:

160 A100 GPUs

Model Architecture:

Transformer decoder with grouped-query and sliding window attention

Input Output

Output Format:

text

LLM Name	Bigcode Starcoder2 3B 8bits
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/RichardErkhov/bigcode_-_starcoder2-3b-8bits
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	3.2 GB
Updated	2026-05-14
Maintainer	RichardErkhov
Model Type	starcoder2
Model Files	3.2 GB
Model Architecture	Starcoder2ForCausalLM
License	bigcode-openrail-m
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.39.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	float16

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