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What is Tabnine?
Tabnine has pivoted its product toward a single profile: the company whose code cannot go out to a public API. It offers deployment on your own servers, air-gapped environments with no internet connection and the option to bring your own model, with SOC 2 and GDPR certifications. In exchange for that guarantee, it retired its free and individual plans in 2025.
Pros
- Deployment on your own servers and fully air-gapped environments
- Your code never leaves for a public cloud
- SOC 2 certification and GDPR compliance
- Lets you bring your own language model
Cons
- Retired its free and individual plans: enterprise only
- Expensive against GitHub Copilot at similar quality
- Requires an annual commitment from the very first plan
What Tabnine is like in practice
Where it stands out
Its argument is where it runs: it can operate on your company's infrastructure or even locally, with a guarantee that code never leaves. For regulated sectors — banking, healthcare, defence — that option is what makes AI assistance viable at all, and its competitors do not offer it.
Where it falls short
In suggestion quality it trails the leaders, and with local models the gap widens. It is a conscious trade: capability for control. If your company has no policy demanding it, you are paying for a guarantee you do not need and giving up better results.
How its pricing works
Per-user pricing in the coding assistant bracket, with negotiated enterprise plans where its real market sits. The deciding question is not price but whether your code policy allows sending it to a third party: if it does, there are better options; if not, there are few alternatives.
Is Tabnine right for you?
Yes, if…
Your compliance team does not allow code to leave for a public API: it is one of the few options with deployment on your own servers, air-gapped environments and your own model.
No, if…
You are an individual developer: it retired its free and individual plans in 2025 and today sells only to companies from $39/user/month with an annual commitment.
Frequently asked questions
Does Tabnine have a free plan?
Not any more. It retired its free tier in 2025 and the individual plans afterwards. Today it only sells to companies, from $39/user/month billed annually.
Why choose it over GitHub Copilot?
For one specific reason: if your compliance team will not allow code to leave for a public API, Tabnine is one of the few options with production-ready local, air-gapped deployment.
Can I use my own model?
Yes, the Enterprise plan lets you bring your own LLM and deploy it on your infrastructure, even with no internet connection.