StarCoder vs Amazon CodeWhisperer
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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Amazon CodeWhisperer
Rebranded as Amazon Q Developer in 2024 — same tool, new name.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Fully free | Unlimited code completions for individual developers |
| Paid from | — | $19/user/month (Professional) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 100k+ researchers and developers | 1m+ developers |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Maker | Hugging Face / ServiceNow | Amazon |
| 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... |
CodeWhisperer stopped existing as a standalone product in April 2024, folded into Amazon Q Developer alongside Q Business. Readers searching for CodeWhisperer today land on the Q Developer page — same free individual tie... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.