What are the hardware requirements for Starcoderbase?

Starcoderbase requires approximately 63.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Starcoderbase and how large is it?

Starcoderbase is developed by bigcode. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Starcoderbase perform on standard benchmarks?

Starcoderbase has the following published scores: MMLU 32.12, HumanEval (Python) 30.35. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Starcoderbase by bigcode — VRAM 63.3GB

Name: Starcoderbase
Author: bigcode

Starcoderbase is an open-source language model by bigcode. Features: LLM, VRAM: 63.3GB, License: proprietary, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 30.3, HellaSwag: 47.2, MMLU: 32.1, GSM8K: 7.9, HumanEval: 30.4.

Arxiv:1911.02150 Arxiv:2205.14135 Arxiv:2207.14255 Arxiv:2305.06161 Code Codegen Dataset:bigcode/the-stack-dedu... Endpoints compatible Gpt bigcode Model-index Pytorch Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoderbase

Starcoderbase Benchmarks

ARC: 30.29 vs 96.7 (so35)^-68.7%

HellaSwag: 47.21 vs 95.3 (gpt4)^-50.5%

MMLU: 32.12 vs 88.3 (so35)^-63.6%

GSM8K: 7.88 vs 96.4 (so35)^-91.8%

HumanEvalA: 22.4

Python Eva: 30.35 vs 92 (so35)^-67%

Julia Eval: 21.09

D Eval: 10.01

Lua Eval: 26.61

R Eval: 10.18

Racket Eva: 11.77

Rust Eval: 24.46

Swift Eval: 16.74

LLME Score: 0.14173

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

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Starcoderbase Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Use Cases

Areas:

code generation and technical assistance

Applications:

code completion, debugging

Limitations:

The generated code may not work as intended, might be inefficient, contain bugs or exploits.

Considerations:

Generated code may require further validation.

Additional Notes

StarCoderBase models are not instruction models.

Supported Languages

Programming Languages (80+)

Training Details

Data Sources:

The Stack (v1.2)

Data Volume:

1 trillion tokens

Methodology:

Fill-in-the-Middle objective

Context Length:

8192

Training Time:

24 days

Hardware Used:

512 Tesla A100 GPUs

Model Architecture:

GPT-2 model with multi-query attention

LLM Name	Starcoderbase
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoderbase
Required VRAM	63.3 GB
Updated	2026-05-07
Maintainer	bigcode
Model Type	gpt_bigcode
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-7 9.9 GB: 2-of-7 9.8 GB: 3-of-7 9.9 GB: 4-of-7 9.8 GB: 5-of-7 9.9 GB: 6-of-7 4.1 GB: 7-of-7
Gated Model	Yes
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	GPTBigCodeForCausalLM
License	proprietary
Transformers Version	4.28.1
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	float32
Activation Function	gelu

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