PolyCoder vs StarCoder vs CodeLlama vs SantaCoder
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
PolyCoder
CMU's 2022 code LLM — the first fully open Codex-era code model
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StarCoder
Open-source code LLM, 80+ languages, OpenRAIL commercial-use license
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CodeLlama
Meta's 2023 open-weight code models, now archived but still usable.
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SantaCoder
Efficient open-source code model specialised for Python, Java, and Jav...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4.2 / 10 | 6 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 | 4.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | Fully free | Free to download | Fully free |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 50k+ downloads | 100k+ researchers and developers | 1m+ downloads | 100k+ downloads |
| Founded | — | — | — | — |
| Maker | Carnegie Mellon University | Hugging Face / ServiceNow | Meta Platforms | Hugging Face |
| Verdict | PolyCoder matters for what it opened, not what it can do today. The 2022 Carnegie Mellon model (160M to 2.7B parameters, GPT-2 architecture, 249GB of code in 12 languages) was the first code LLM to ship weights, data pip... |
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... |
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... |
SantaCoder is a 1.1B-parameter open code model from the BigCode project, trained with fill-in-the-middle on Python, Java and JavaScript to test whether careful data filtering beats raw scale — a bet it won for its era. F... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.