What are the hardware requirements for Starcoder Proto Code?

Starcoder Proto Code requires approximately 6.1 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 Starcoder Proto Code and how large is it?

Starcoder Proto Code is developed by mjalg, 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 Starcoder Proto Code?

Starcoder Proto Code is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Starcoder Proto Code by mjalg — VRAM 6.1GB, 16K context

Name: Starcoder Proto Code
Author: mjalg

Starcoder Proto Code is an open-source language model by mjalg. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.1GB, Context: 16K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama-factory Region:us Safetensors Sharded Starcoder2 Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mjalg/starcoder-proto-code

Starcoder Proto Code Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Starcoder Proto Code
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mjalg/starcoder-proto-code
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.1 GB
Updated	2026-06-06
Maintainer	mjalg
Model Type	starcoder2
Model Files	1.9 GB: 1-of-4 2.0 GB: 2-of-4 2.0 GB: 3-of-4 0.2 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	Starcoder2ForCausalLM
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	float16

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