StarCoder vs WizardCoder
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
StarCoder
Open-source code LLM, 80+ languages, OpenRAIL commercial-use license
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WizardCoder
Microsoft's 2023 Evol-Instruct code model — once SOTA, now dated.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6 / 10 | 5.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Fully free | Free to download |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 100k+ researchers and developers | 200k+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Hugging Face / ServiceNow | Microsoft |
| Verdict | 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... |
WizardCoder applies Microsoft's Evol-Instruct technique — progressively harder auto-generated coding instructions — to fine-tune Code Llama and DeepSeek-Coder bases. At release it was genuinely competitive: WizardCoder-3... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.