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bigcode/starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1

bigcode/starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1 is a bigcode record on this register. The Hugging Face model API lists the pipeline tag as text-generation. The safetensors index gives an exact parameter count of 15,957,889,024. Architectural context length (max_position_embeddings) is 16,384. The listed licence is bigcode-openrail-m. The Hub repository was created on 23 Apr 2024, which is the release date this register uses.

Primary source: the Hugging Face model card for bigcode/starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1. Fields below come from that card, the Hub model API, and the repository’s own config.json when those files exist. A field we cannot source is omitted rather than guessed.

Organisationbigcode
ReleasedRepo creation date on Hugging Face23 Apr 2024
Last modified3 Nov 2024
ParametersExact, from the safetensors index16.0B 15,957,889,024
Context lengthmax_position_embeddings — architectural maximum, not necessarily served16K 16,384
Licencebigcode-openrail-m
Pipeline / taskpipeline_tag on the Hugging Face model APItext-generation
Base modelDeclared on the Hub and present on this registerbigcode/starcoder2-15b
File formatssafetensors
Librarylibrary_name on the Hugging Face model APItransformers
Architecturestarcoder2
Layers40
Vocabulary49,152
DownloadsAt last check1.5k
Likes106
GatedNo

Lineage

This record names bigcode/starcoder2-15b as its base model, and that release is on this register.

How to run

Safetensors weights are on the Hugging Face repository. The parameter count on this page came from that index.

The Hugging Face model API lists the library as transformers.

Load it from huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1. This page does not add install steps that the Hub files do not state.

Agent capabilities

Derived from the model’s own chat template, with the match counts behind each finding.

  • ○Tool callingno evidence in template
  • ○Reasoning / thinkingno evidence in template
  • ●System prompt1 match in template
  • ○Image inputno evidence in template
  • ○Video inputno evidence in template
  • ○Audio inputno evidence in template

Questions this record can answer

When was starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1 released?
The Hugging Face repository was created on 23 Apr 2024, which is the date this register uses.
How many parameters does starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1 have?
The safetensors index gives 15,957,889,024 parameters, shown here as 16.0B. That figure is exact, not rounded.
What is the context length of starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1?
16,384 tokens. That is max_position_embeddings from the model's own config.json — the architectural maximum, not necessarily the context a provider serves.
What licence is starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1 under?
The Hub card lists bigcode-openrail-m.
Is starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1 gated?
No. The Hugging Face model API does not mark this repository as gated.
Does the starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1 chat template show tool calling?
The chat template was read and no tool-calling evidence was found.

Where each field came from

  • Hugging Face model API — releasedAt, lastModified, downloads, likes, task, license, gated, parameters, libraryName, formats, baseModel. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
  • config.json — contextLength, layers, vocabSize, architecture. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
  • chat template — capabilities. Checked 18 Oct 2026.

First recorded 24 Sept 2026, last checked 18 Oct 2026. This record is compiled automatically from the sources above. Where a field is blank, we could not source it and have not guessed. Canonical repository: huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder2-15b-instruct-v0.1.