PolyCoder vs StarCoder
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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| RECATOOLS Score | 4.2 / 10 | 6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | Fully free |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 50k+ downloads | 100k+ researchers and developers |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | Carnegie Mellon University | Hugging Face / ServiceNow |
| 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... |
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