GitHub Copilot vs Tabnine
GitHub Copilot scores 8.5 to Tabnine's 7.5 among the AI coding assistants we rate, and is the better pick for 2 of the 4 kinds of buyer below.
GitHub Copilot wins, 8.5 to 7.5
GitHub Copilot has a free plan and its Pro tier costs $10 a month; Tabnine has no free plan, and its Code Assistant plan costs $39 a month, nearly four times as much. Copilot reviews pull requests, which Tabnine's own assistant does not do. Tabnine can run on your own servers and states your code is never stored, options Copilot does not offer.
Pick GitHub Copilot if you want a free plan and built-in pull request review.
Pick Tabnine if you want on-prem hosting and a guarantee your code is never stored.
Best for
Who each one suits, decided on the criteria that matter to that buyer and the checked facts where the two differ.
- Reviews pull requests: GitHub Copilot yes, Tabnine no
- Free plan: GitHub Copilot yes, Tabnine no
- Monthly price, cheapest paid plan: $10 against $39
- Runs models on your own machine: Tabnine yes, GitHub Copilot no
- Runs on your own servers or cloud: Tabnine yes, GitHub Copilot no
- Does not train AI on your code: Yes against unless you opt out
- But GitHub Copilot leads on editors and terminals it works in: Cli, vscode, jetbrains, visual_studio, neovim, xcode against Vscode, jetbrains, visual_studio, cli
How they score
Both are scored the same way, against the other AI coding assistants we rate, from facts on each vendor's own pages. GitHub Copilot leads on 3 of 5 criteria.
Where they differ
Every point where the two vendors' published facts disagree, with a link to where each fact was read. "Not published" means the vendor does not say either way.
Published by only one of them
Where they match (8)
Pricing, plan by plan
Every plan each vendor publishes, monthly and yearly where both are offered.
GitHub Copilot
Tabnine
For everything else about each tool, read the full GitHub Copilot review and Tabnine review.
GitHub Copilot vs Tabnine: common questions
Which is better, GitHub Copilot or Tabnine?
GitHub Copilot scores 8.5 and Tabnine 7.5 out of 10 among the AI coding assistants we rate. GitHub Copilot is ahead on agents and your codebase, pricing and where it works. Tabnine is ahead on model freedom and privacy and security.
Is GitHub Copilot or Tabnine cheaper?
GitHub Copilot's cheapest paid plan is Free (GitHub Copilot Free, 2,000 completions a month) and Tabnine's is $39/user/mo (Tabnine Code Assistant, annual subscription, quote required). Compare what each plan includes below before going on price alone.
Do GitHub Copilot and Tabnine have a free plan?
GitHub Copilot does and Tabnine does not.
What can GitHub Copilot do that Tabnine cannot?
On the facts both vendors publish: reviews pull requests and free plan.
What can Tabnine do that GitHub Copilot cannot?
On the facts both vendors publish: runs models on your own machine and runs on your own servers or cloud.
