# Hugging Face — SafeCoder vs. Closed-source Code Assistants

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-09-11
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/safecoder-vs-closed-source-code-assistants
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2000-safecoder-vs-closed-source-code-assistants
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: SafeCoder, StarCoder, StarCoderBase, StarCoder+
- Context window: 8192-token context window

Hugging Face compares its SafeCoder code assistant to closed-source alternatives, emphasizing benefits in transparency, customization, IT flexibility, and privacy.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/safecoder-vs-closed-source-code-assistants:

> SafeCoder is a code assistant solution built for the enterprise that gives you state-of-the-art models, transparency, customizability, IT flexibility, and privacy.

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