Codeium vs CodeLlama vs GitHub Copilot vs StarCoder
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Codeium
Free autocomplete veteran, now Devin Desktop under Cognition
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CodeLlama
Meta's 2023 open-weight code models, now archived but still usable.
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GitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub
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StarCoder
Open-source code LLM, 80+ languages, OpenRAIL commercial-use license
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Unlimited completions and chat for individual developers | Free to download | Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers) | Fully free |
| Paid from | $12/user/month (Teams) | — | Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ developers | 1m+ downloads | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | 100k+ researchers and developers |
| Founded | 2021 | 2023 | 2021 | 2023 |
| Maker | Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen | Meta Platforms | Microsoft | Hugging Face / ServiceNow |
| Verdict | The product formerly known as Codeium now lives two rebrands away: Windsurf, then Devin Desktop under Cognition since June 2026. The free plugin line survives — unlimited tab completions and chat across VS Code, JetBrain... |
Code Llama is Meta's 2023 family of open-weight code models (7B–70B, plus Python and Instruct variants) built on Llama 2, with completion, infill, and up to 100K-token context. It's free to download and self-host under t... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot remains the lowest-friction AI coding assistant: inline completions, chat, multi-file edits and an agent mode, native in VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub itself, with a choice of GPT, Cl... |
StarCoder, from the BigCode project (Hugging Face and ServiceNow), is an openly licensed code-generation model family — now on its second generation, StarCoder2, in 3B/7B/15B sizes trained on The Stack v2's 600+ language... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.