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 smallcloudai, 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 smallcloudai — VRAM 30.2GB

Name: Starcoderbase 7B
Author: smallcloudai

Starcoderbase 7B is an open-source language model by smallcloudai. 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 Autotrain compatible Code Codegen Dataset:bigcode/the-stack-dedu... Endpoints compatible Gpt bigcode Model-index Pytorch Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/smallcloudai/starcoderbase-7b

Starcoderbase 7B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Use Cases

Primary Use Cases:

Generating code from GitHub source code

Limitations:

Not guaranteed to work as intended, Generated code can be inefficient, contain bugs, or exploits

Considerations:

Must respect licenses of the generated code, which may require attribution.

Additional Notes

The model is not an instruction model and requires specific prompts to perform well, like the Tech Assistant prompt.

Supported Languages

Programming Languages (80+ programming languages)

Training Details

Data Sources:

The Stack (v1.2)

Data Volume:

1 trillion tokens

Methodology:

Fill-in-the-Middle objective

Context Length:

8192

Hardware Used:

512 Tesla A100 GPUs

Model Architecture:

GPT-2 model with multi-query attention

LLM Name	Starcoderbase 7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/smallcloudai/starcoderbase-7b
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	30.2 GB
Updated	2025-05-30
Maintainer	smallcloudai
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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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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	9	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 smallcloudai/starcoderbase-7b.