WizardCoder vs StarCoder

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

WizardCoder Microsoft's 2023 Evol-Instruct code model — once SOTA, now dated. Visit StarCoder Open-source code LLM, 80+ languages, OpenRAIL commercial-use license Visit
RECATOOLS Score 5.8 / 10 6 / 10
Capability 6 5.5
Value for money 7.5 7
Ease of use 4 4.5
ASEAN readiness 5 6.5
API quality 0 5.5
Pricing Open Source Open Source
Free tier Free to download Fully free
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 200k+ downloads 100k+ researchers and developers
Founded 2023 2023
Maker Microsoft Hugging Face / ServiceNow
Verdict

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...

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.