@meta
  v: 1
  route: /model/starcoder2-15b
  generated: 2026-06-10T08:49:01.528Z

@intent
  purpose:    Show what hardware can run StarCoder2 15B.
  audience:   ai-engineer, self-hoster, model-evaluator
  capability: inspect_model_specs, find_compatible_gpus, compare_similar_models, open_huggingface

@state
  slug: starcoder2-15b
  name: StarCoder2 15B
  hf_repo: bigcode/starcoder2-15b
  params_b: 15
  active_params_b: ~
  family: BigCode
  type: dense
  context_k: 16
  fp16_gb: 30
  summary: BigCode's 15B code reference. Strong fill-in-the-middle; the open StarCoder lineage continues here.
  smallest_fitting_gpu_q4: rtx-3060
  smallest_fitting_gpu_fp16: a6000

@actions
  - id: open_huggingface
    method: GET
    href: https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder2-15b
  - id: view_compatible_gpus
    method: GET
    href: /model/starcoder2-15b
  - id: compare_similar
    method: GET
    href: /model/phi-4
  - id: view_calculator
    method: GET
    href: /#calculator

@context
  > BigCode's 15B code reference. Strong fill-in-the-middle; the open StarCoder lineage continues here.

@nav
  self:      /model/starcoder2-15b
  parents:   [/]
  peers:     [/model/phi-4, /model/gpt-oss-20b, /model/qwen-3-5-9b, /model/gemma-2-9b]
  drilldown: /the-math