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Cody vs Tabnine

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Tabnine publishes a starting price ($39); Cody does not.

CodyEnterprise coding assistant grounded in your whole repositoryTabnineEnterprise code assistant that can run fully air-gapped

Side by side

FactCodyTabnine
CategoryAI Coding AssistantsAI Coding Assistants
Pricing modelContactPaid
Starts at—$39 month
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWeb, Vscode ExtVscode Ext, macOS, Windows, Linux
CompanySourcegraph, Inc.Tabnine
Launched20232013
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Cody

Only worth evaluating if you already run Sourcegraph and your codebase is big enough that repository-wide retrieval actually changes answers. Solo developers and small teams cannot buy it at all any more.

Pros

  • Retrieval is backed by a real code search index rather than ad-hoc embeddings over an open folder
  • Underlying model is configurable instead of locked to one vendor
  • Enterprise controls: self-hosting, admin policy and audit

Cons

  • No free or self-serve tier since July 2025
  • Priced as part of a Sourcegraph contract, which the vendor lists as starting around $16K
  • Sourcegraph's product momentum moved to Amp, which split off as a separate company in December 2025
  • sourcegraph.com/cody now redirects to documentation instead of a product page

Tabnine

If your compliance team will not let code leave the building, Tabnine is one of the few assistants that answers that requirement properly — but it has walked away from individual developers entirely, and the catalogs still listing it as freemium are two years stale.

Pros

  • Deployment options run all the way to air-gapped, which almost no competitor matches
  • Context engine connects Perforce as well as the usual Git hosts, which matters in games and hardware
  • Self-hosted models carry no token metering, so heavy use does not scale the bill

Cons

  • No free tier since April 2025 and no individual plan since October 2025
  • Entry price is $39/user/month, roughly four times Copilot Pro
  • Annual billing only, so there is no cheap way to pilot it
  • Cloud model usage is billed on top of the seat fee rather than included

Which one fits

Choose Cody if you need

  • Large orgs already licensed for Sourcegraph code search
  • Monorepos where cross-repo context beats file-level autocomplete
  • Security-constrained teams needing self-hosted or VPC deployment

Choose Tabnine if you need

  • Regulated teams that need on-premises or air-gapped inference
  • Organisations with a zero-code-retention requirement in procurement
  • Enterprises wanting completions tuned on their own private repositories

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