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starcoder-guide
Build with StarCoder code models — open code LLMs trained on The Stack with fill-in-the-middle support.
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## Overview
StarCoder (BigCode — a collaboration involving Hugging Face and ServiceNow)
is an open code-LLM family trained on The Stack, a large dataset of
permissively-licensed source code. The licensing story is the differentiator:
training on license-filtered code was designed to make StarCoder safer for
commercial use from a code-provenance perspective. StarCoder2 continued the
line with improved training and efficiency.
For builders, StarCoder's relevance is strongest where code IP provenance
matters: organizations with strict policies about training-data licensing for
the models they deploy. Technically, StarCoder supports fill-in-the-middle
(FIM) for code completion, long-ish contexts, and standard code tasks —
evaluate it against other code models on your languages and tasks.