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//Tabnine vs. GitHub Copilot//

Unlike GitHub Copilot, Tabnine gives you full control over our AI code assistant by letting you choose what data it uses to add context from your environment. You can also set the privacy and protection trade-offs that fit your security and compliance policies.
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Why enterprises and individual developers choose Tabnine over GitHub Copilot

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Privacy

Maintain complete control over your data. Your code isn’t stored, isn’t shared with third parties, and isn’t used to train our models.

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. 

Get industry-standard compliance. Tabnine is compliant with SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, and ISO 9001.

IP protection

Tabnine eliminates IP infringement worries by giving you the option to use license-compliant models.

Personalization

Get 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 lets users connect Tabnine to their organizational code repos to gain global context.

Tabnine also 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 dataset (like System Verilog). 

Portability

Use Tabnine on any SCM platform. That includes GitHub as well as GitLab, BitBucket, or any Git-based platform.

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

Tabnine integrates with all the major IDEs and supports more than 80 programming languages and frameworks.

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Tabnine is honored to be recognized by leading analyst firms
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Tabnine is proud to be recognized in Gartner® Critical Capabilities for AI code assistants.

Of the 12 vendors evaluated by Gartner®, here’s how Tabnine ranked.

Tabnine ranked 1st for

  • Code Generation Use Case
  • Code Debugging Use Case
  • Code Explanation Use Case

Tabnine ranked 2nd for

  • Code Modernization Use Case
  • Artifact Building and Testing Use Case

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Tabnine is featured as a Luminary in Everest Group’s Innovation Watch Assessment for Generative AI Applications in Software Development.

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Tabnine is recognized in Omdia’s Market Radar for AI-Assisted Software Development

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Tabnine offers 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 of the key capabilities of Tabnine and GitHub Copilot.
Code completion
Autogenerates code snippets and full functions as you type
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 comprehensive test plans with detailed test cases for a specific function or code in your project
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
Tabnine's Code Explorer (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)
Customers can consume 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 their code stays in the boundaries of their corporate network and isn’t shared with any external party.
GitHub Copilot is offered only as a SaaS product.
Support for fully air-gapped deployments
SOC 2 Type 2 compliance
Tabnine offers SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, which is a critical compliance that examines how well the product’s security controls perform over a prolonged period of time.
GitHub Copilot offers SOC 2 Type 1 compliance that evaluates the security controls at a single point in time.
GDPR compliance
ISO 9001 compliance
Tabnine offers ISO 9001 compliance, which is a globally recognized standard for quality management that demonstrates a company's commitment to maintaining high quality, meeting customer expectations, and improving performance.
GitHub Copilot does not offer ISO 9001 compliance.
Zero data retention policy (both for code and usage metrics)
Tabnine offers a zero data retention policy. When using Tabnine’s proprietary models, we don’t store customer code, don’t share customer code or usage data with third parties, and don’t use customer code to train our models.
GitHub Copilot retains your data. When accessing GitHub Copilot via sources other than in your IDE (such as CLI), your prompts and suggestions are retained for 28 days. This retention policy applies not only for Copilot’s Business tier but also for their Enterprise tier.
Protection
Enterprise-grade security, confirmed by industry certifications
Availability of license-compliant models
Tabnine eliminates concerns around IP infringement. We’ve trained our proprietary models (i.e., Tabnine Protected model for Chat, and the universal model for code completion) exclusively on permissively licensed code. This ensures that the recommendations from Tabnine never match any proprietary code and removes any concerns around legal risks associated with accepting the code suggestions. Unlike Github Copilot, we’re transparent about the data used to train our proprietary model and share it with customers under NDA.
It's possible for GitHub Copilot to return code suggestions that match publicly available copyrighted code, which can trigger claims of copyright infringement. In fact, GitHub, along with Microsoft and OpenAI, are being sued for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing open source code using AI.
Indemnification against IP violations for any and all generated code
Models
Proprietary models for code completions
Proprietary models for chat
Switchable models for chat
Tabnine currently offers users 8 different model choices for Tabnine Chat: two custom-built, fully private models from Tabnine, plus popular models from third parties such as OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic and Mistral. This flexibility enables users to pick the right model based on their use case or a project. Tabnine admins at enterprises have complete control and can choose any specific models for their teams. They can also connect Tabnine to an LLM endpoint inside their corporate network if needed. Tabnine is committed to adding support for new, state-of-the-art LLMs as they become available. This prevents LLM lock in, future-proofs your AI strategy, and enables you to take advantage of all the innovation happening in this space.
GitHub Copilot uses the GPT family of models to power its AI chat. Since the GPT family of models are the only model option, it prevents users from leveraging the new and powerful models that become available.
Personalization
Uses local code awareness to create more relevant recommendations
Uses access to your company codebase(s) to create more relevant recommendations
Tabnine admins at enterprises can connect Tabnine to their organization code repos to gain global context. Unlike Copilot, we’re vendor-agnostic and enable users to connect Tabnine to any Git-based repository (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket).
Copilot can index an organization’s GitHub repos to gain the global context.
Ability to train custom models against your organization’s code
Tabnine offers model customization: you can fine-tune our proprietary model using your own code to create a custom model. Model customization is extremely valuable when you have code in a bespoke programming language or a language that’s underrepresented in the training dataset (such as System Verilog).
Model fine-tuning is not currently available in GitHub Copilot.
Product tiers and pricing
Free tier
Tabnine offers a free tier for all users.
GitHub Copilot’s free tier is limited to verified students, teachers, and maintainers of popular open source projects.
Pro tier (for individual developers and small teams)
Enterprise tier
IDEs
Support for the development environments your teams use
Tabnine includes support for VS Code, Visual Studio, the JetBrains family of IDEs, Eclipse, and Neovim.
Eclipse and Neovim IDEs are not supported.
Programming languages
Support for the programming languages your teams use
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//Pro//

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An AI coding assistant built for how you work; great for individuals and small teams
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Pro features

  • AI code completions powered by the most advanced models
  • AI chat agents in the IDE to generate code, test, docs, and more
  • AI agents personalized to your code in the IDE
  • Code recommendations exclusively drawn from permissively licensed codebases
  • Switchable models for AI chat agents, including models from Tabnine and third-party providers
  • Security vulnerability filtering in generated code
  • Basic admin tools for user and policy management
  • Enterprise-grade security, safety, and privacy
  • Ticket-based support available during business hours
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//Enterprise//

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A private, secure AI-powered development platform optimized for your business
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All Pro features, plus

  • SaaS or self-hosted (on-premises or VPC) deployment
  • AI chat agents personalized to your entire codebase
  • AI models can be fine-tuned to your codebase**
  • AI models aware of your corporate standards and guidelines*
  • Atlassian Jira and Confluence integration to inform AI models*
  • Advanced admin tools for user and policy management
  • Admin tools for tracking usage and user productivity
  • SSO integration for ease of administration
  • Reference tracking exposes the source of generated code*
  • IP indemnification
  • Priority ticket-based support during business hours
  • Training on AI-enabled software development for your entire team
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Resources

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Tabnine vs. GitHub Copilot blog post >
Product Docs >
Tabnine Plans and Pricing >
AI Code Assistant Buyer’s Guide >