bigcode / text-generation updated 3 years ago

tiny_starcoder_py

Name: tiny_starcoder_py
Author: bigcode

This is a 164M parameters model with the same architecture as StarCoder (8k context length, MQA & FIM). It was trained on the Python data from StarCoderData for ~6 epochs which amounts to 100B tokens.

Params

160 M

Context

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249 K

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Licence: bigcode-openrail-m Not gated SAFETENSORS View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	f32	0.7 GB	1.2 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub

~ · curl · api/v1

$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/tiny-starcoder-py
{
  "hf_id": "bigcode/tiny_starcoder_py",
  "params_b": 0.16,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "bigcode-openrail-m", "commercial": "unknown" },
  "downloads_30d": 249481,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "f32", "gb": 1.2 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:07:14Z"
}

est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture: GPTBigCodeForCausalLM
Parameters: 160 M
Tensor type: F32
Vocabulary: 49,152
Licence: bigcode-openrail-m
First seen on the Hub: 2023-05-15
Training datasets: bigcode/the-stack-dedup
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

Compare with

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