Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to StarCoder2-15B
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for StarCoder2-15B by Hugging Face (StarCoder)? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities.
Category: LLM 33K context
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Ministral 3 3B
Mistral AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Qwen3.5 9B
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 48 1.0M ctx 98%
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.15 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 37 128K ctx 98%
Ministral 3 14B
Mistral AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
GPT-5.4 Nano
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.2 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 98%
Claude 3 Haiku
Anthropic
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 33 200K ctx 98%
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.25 in · $1.5 out / 1M Tokens 1.0M ctx 98%
Devstral 2
Mistral AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.4 in · $2 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.6 in · $3.6 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Grok 4.20 0309 Non Reasoning
xAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$1.25 in · $2.5 out / 1M Tokens 131K ctx 98%
Grok 4.20 0309 Reasoning
xAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$1.25 in · $2.5 out / 1M Tokens 131K ctx 98%
Grok 4.20 Multi Agent 0309
xAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$1.25 in · $2.5 out / 1M Tokens 131K ctx 98%
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.8 in · $4 out / 1M Tokens 49 200K ctx 98%
Claude 4.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$1 in · $5 out / 1M Tokens 200K ctx 98%
GPT-5.3-Codex
OpenAI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$1.75 in · $14 out / 1M Tokens 400K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Pro
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$3.5 in · $10.5 out / 1M Tokens 58 2.1M ctx 98%
Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.