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
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.