Tabnine is one of the original AI code completion tools — launched in 2018, well before GitHub Copilot. Its key differentiator is privacy: Tabnine can run entirely on your local machine or private cloud, meaning your code never leaves your infrastructure. This makes it the top choice for enterprises in regulated industries like finance, healthcare and defence.
Tabnine's AI is trained exclusively on permissively licensed open-source code, which means it carries significantly lower IP risk than tools trained on all public code. For legal and compliance teams, this is a major advantage.
Beyond privacy, Tabnine offers strong whole-line and full-function completions, a chat assistant, test generation and code explanation features. Its team learning feature trains a private model on your organisation's codebase — so completions reflect your team's specific patterns and conventions over time.
Can run 100% locally — code never leaves your machine
Trained only on permissively licensed code (lower IP risk)
Team learning — trains on your private codebase
Strong enterprise security and compliance features
Supports 80+ languages and 15+ editors
One of the most established AI coding tools (since 2018)
Watch out for
Free plan more limited than Codeium
Less context-aware than Cursor for large codebases
UI less polished than newer competitors
Local model less capable than cloud models
Tabnine Pricing (2026)
Plan
Price
What's included
Free
$0/mo
Basic completions, limited suggestions per day
Pro
$12/user/mo
Full completions, chat assistant, test generation, all editors
Enterprise
Custom
Private deployment, team model training, SSO, compliance, SLA
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — Tabnine is one of the safest AI coding tools for enterprise use. It can be deployed entirely on your private infrastructure, your code never leaves your environment, and it's trained only on permissively licensed code. It's used by teams at major banks, healthcare companies and government organisations.
Tabnine's main advantage over Copilot is privacy — it can run locally with no data leaving your machine. Copilot sends code snippets to OpenAI's servers. For individual developers, Copilot generally has slightly better completions. For privacy-sensitive teams, Tabnine is the safer choice.
Yes — Tabnine has a VS Code extension that takes under 2 minutes to install. It also supports JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Neovim, Sublime Text, Eclipse, Emacs and most other popular editors.
Tabnine Enterprise can train a private AI model on your team's codebase. Over time, it learns your naming conventions, coding patterns and architecture — producing completions that match how your specific team writes code, not just generic code patterns.