What are the hardware requirements for Starcoderbase 7B?

Starcoderbase 7B requires approximately 30.2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Starcoderbase 7B and how large is it?

Starcoderbase 7B is developed by refactai, a model with 7b 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 Starcoderbase 7B?

Starcoderbase 7B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Starcoderbase 7B by refactai — VRAM 30.2GB

Name: Starcoderbase 7B
Author: refactai

Starcoderbase 7B is an open-source language model by refactai. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 30.2GB, License: bigcode-openrail-m, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

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/refactai/starcoderbase-7b

Starcoderbase 7B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Starcoderbase 7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/refactai/starcoderbase-7b
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	30.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	refactai
Model Type	gpt_bigcode
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-4 10.0 GB: 2-of-4 9.5 GB: 3-of-4 0.8 GB: 4-of-4
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	GPTBigCodeForCausalLM
License	bigcode-openrail-m
Transformers Version	4.28.1
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	float32
Activation Function	gelu

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Best Alternatives to Starcoderbase 7B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Starcoder 7B Agent 0.3 Merged	0K / 14.7 GB	18	0
Starcoder 7B Agent 0.2 Merged	0K / 14.7 GB	11	0
Codes 7B Spider	0K / 29.4 GB	30	0
Codes 7B Merged	0K / 29.4 GB	8	0
Starcoderbase 7B	0K / 30.2 GB	10	1
Codes 7B Bird	0K / 29.4 GB	20	0
Codes 7B Bird With Evidence	0K / 29.4 GB	6	0
Codes 7B	0K / 29.4 GB	75	9

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than refactai/starcoderbase-7b.