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//Tabnine vs GitHub Copilot//

Tabnine and GitHub Copilot are the leading AI code assistants on the market — each product has more than a million monthly active users and both products were recently featured as luminaries by Everest Group in their Gen AI Applications in Software Development innovation watch. However, unlike GitHub Copilot, Tabnine gives you utmost control over its AI code assistant by allowing customers to personalize the AI to their systems and set the privacy, and protection trade-offs that fit their security and compliance policies.
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Why enterprises and individual developers choose Tabnine over GitHub Copilot

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Privacy

Complete control over your data – your code is not stored, not shared with third parties, not used to train our models

Ability to control the deployment location – Use Tabnine as a secure SaaS offering (in a multitenant or a single-tenant environment) or do a fully private installation (on-premises or on VPC) to ensure that your code stays in the boundaries of your corporate network.

Industry standard compliances – SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, ISO 9001

IP Protection

Eliminates worry about IP infringement by giving you the option to use license compliant models

Personalization

Delivers highly personalized recommendations – you control what data Tabnine uses to add context from your environment. Tabnine leverages locally available data in the developer’s IDE and allows users to connect Tabnine to their organization code repos to gain global context. Additionally Tabnine offers model customization which is extremely valuable when you have code in a bespoke programming language or a language that is underrepresented in the training data set such as System Verilog.

Portability

Use Tabnine on any SCM platform – GitHub as well as GitLab, BitBucket, or any Git based platform

Ability to use new state-of-the-art LLMs with Tabnine. Tabnine admins have full control over choosing specific models and they can also connect Tabnine to an LLM endpoint inside their corporate network if needed.

Integration with all the major IDEs and support for over 80 programming languages and frameworks

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Significant cost savings

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Difference
Entry-level tier
$0
$10*
Small teams
$12
$19
36%
Enterprise tier
$39
$58.25**
49%

* GitHub Copilot is free to use for verified students, teachers, and maintainers of popular open source projects.
** The Copilot enterprise tier requires a subscription to GitHub Enterprise Cloud.
The $58.25 price includes $39 for the Copilot Enterprise tier subscription and $19.25 for the GitHub Enterprise Cloud subscription.

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Side by side comparison

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Check out this detailed comparison between the key capabilities of Tabnine and GitHub Copilot.
Code completion
Autogenerates code snippets and full functions as you type
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Generates code automatically from written comments
AI chat assistance
Ask general coding questions and get relevant recommendations
Use natural language to generate code based on your specifications
Automatic generation of documentation for selected code
Recommend fixes to selected code with error(s)
Automatic generation of documentation for selected code
Plain language explanation of the purpose and behavior of selected code
Ability to update or refactor selected code
Dedicated Onboarding Agent to enable developers to quickly onboard to a new project
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
test Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Privacy
Ability to control the deployment location (SaaS, VPC, on-premises)
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Support for fully air-gapped deployments
SOC 2 Type 2 compliance
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
GDPR compliance
ISO 9001 compliance
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Zero data retention policy (both for code and usage metrics)
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Protection
Enterprise-grade security, confirmed by industry certifications
Availability of license compliant models
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Onboarding Agent (a built-in command in Tabnine Chat) enables developers to onboard quickly by returning a high-level summary of the key elements of the project, including things like runnable scripts, key dependencies, and overall structure. It also suggests possible follow-up questions about this summary, allowing the developer to dive further into the relevant information for their current task.
Indemnification against IP violations for any and all generated code
Models
Proprietary models for code completions
Proprietary models for chat
Switchable models for chat
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Personalization
Uses local code awareness to create more relevant recommendations
Uses access to your company codebase(s) to create more relevant recommendations
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Ability to train custom models against your organization’s code
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Product tiers and pricing
Free tier
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Pro Tier (i.e., tier targeted towards individual developers and small teams)
Enterprise tier
IDEs
Support for the development environments your team use
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Programming languages
Support for the programming languages your team uses the most
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Resources

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Tabnine vs GitHub Copilot blog post >
Product docs >
Plans and pricing page >
AI code assistant buyer’s guide >