Tabnine

Privacy-first completions (can run air-gapped)

What Tabnine does

  • Privacy-first completions (can run air-gapped)
  • Personalized to your code
  • Model choice and controls
  • Free Basic plan

Tabnine — straight answers

What is Tabnine?

Tabnine is listed under Code Autocomplete & Assistants, in the Code & Development category on Flocci AI Tools. Privacy-first completions (can run air-gapped). It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at tabnine.com.

Is Tabnine free?

Tabnine is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 426 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

Can I use Tabnine in a browser, or is there an app?

Tabnine needs to be installed or self-hosted — it doesn't run in a browser tab. It is available on inside another product and self-hosting.

What can Tabnine do?

Tabnine does 4 things the catalog singles out: Privacy-first completions (can run air-gapped); personalized to your code; model choice and controls; free basic plan.

What is the best free alternative to Tabnine?

Continue is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Code Autocomplete & Assistants sub-category and is free. Tabby, Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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  • Free tier: 2,000 completions & chats/month
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Amazon Q Developer

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  • AWS-savvy coding assistant and agents
  • Security scanning and code transforms
  • Feature development from issues
  • Free tier available

Sourcegraph Cody

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  • Deep whole-codebase context
  • Chat, autocomplete and fixes
  • Great for large/legacy repos
  • Cody is now documented as supported on Sourcegraph Enterprise only; Free and Pro plans were retired.

Continue

Code Autocomplete & Assistants
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  • Bring any model: cloud API keys or local models via Ollama
  • Custom rules, MCP tools and PR checks defined as code

Tabby

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freeNew
  • Self-hosted AI coding assistant with completion and chat
  • Runs on your own hardware with open code models, no cloud dependency
  • IDE extensions for VS Code, JetBrains and Vim

Cursor

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  • AI-first VS Code fork with agent mode
  • Multi-file edits and terminal commands
  • Codebase-wide context and rules
  • Free tier with limited requests

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