//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

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

Significant cost savings

Difference

Entry-level tier

$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.

Side by side comparison

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

$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

Privacy

$Ability to control the deployment location (SaaS, VPC, on-premises)

$Support for fully air-gapped deployments

$SOC 2 Type 2 compliance

$GDPR compliance

$ISO 9001 compliance

$Zero data retention policy (both for code and usage metrics)

Protection

$Enterprise-grade security, confirmed by industry certifications

$Availability of license compliant models

$Indemnification against IP violations for any and all generated code

Models

$Proprietary models for code completions

$Proprietary models for chat

$Switchable models for chat

Personalization

$Uses local code awareness to create more relevant recommendations

$Uses access to your company codebase(s) to create more relevant recommendations

$Ability to train custom models against your organization’s code

Product tiers and pricing

$Free tier

$Pro Tier (i.e., tier targeted towards individual developers and small teams)

$Enterprise tier

IDEs

$Support for the development environments your team use

Programming languages

$Support for the programming languages your team uses the most

//Tabnine vs GitHub Copilot//

Why enterprises and individual developers choose Tabnine over GitHub Copilot

Significant cost savings

Side by side comparison

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