Tabnine is now an enterprise-only AI coding platform, and the individual plans most people remember are gone. The free Basic tier was sunset in April 2025, the mid-tier Dev plan was removed in release 5.24.0 later that year, and the current lineup is Code Assistant at $39 per user monthly and Agentic Platform at $59 — both annual billing, no monthly option, no individual licence. What survives is the reason enterprises bought it: air-gapped and on-premise deployment, zero code retention, and models that never train on your code. Third-party listings still quoting $9 or $12 are describing plans Tabnine no longer sells.
Reviewed by EdGrows·Updated Aug 18, 2026Affiliate link — we may earn a commission
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If you're reading this because you were about to buy Tabnine's $12 Dev plan, stop. It was removed in release 5.24.0 in late 2025.
If you were going to use the free tier, that went earlier — sunset on April 2, 2025, in a post the company titled "Scaling Enterprise AI: Why we're sunsetting Tabnine Basic." Replaced by a 90-day Dev Preview, then nothing.
What's left is two plans:
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| Code Assistant | $39/user/mo | Annual only |
| Agentic Platform | $59/user/mo | Annual only |
| Enterprise (VPC, on-prem, air-gapped) | Custom | Annual, contracted |
No monthly option. No individual licence. You buy as a team or you don't buy.
This matters beyond the sticker shock, because a large share of the pages currently ranking for Tabnine pricing still list $9 or $12 tiers. Those are 2025 captures of plans that no longer exist, and if you're comparing tools from a spreadsheet built on them, your numbers are wrong by 3-4x.
The reasoning is straightforward once stated: you cannot run enterprise-grade AI inference at scale and sell it profitably at $9 a month. Tabnine chose enterprise margins over consumer volume, which — given that its actual differentiation was always compliance rather than capability — was strategically the right call.
The execution left individual users behind. Reddit threads from February 2026 record Pro subscribers who'd paid for years receiving cancellation emails. Existing Dev customers were migrated to Code Assistant at the new price or churned out.
There's no villain in this. There is a lesson: Tabnine was one of the earliest AI coding tools, launched in 2018 before Copilot existed, and it survived by abandoning the audience that made it known. In a category where Codeium was carved into three pieces and Continue was acquired and frozen, choosing to become smaller and profitable is not the worst outcome on the board.
Not better completions. Compliance.
Four deployment modes, including fully air-gapped on-premise with no internet connection whatsoever. That's the headline capability, and almost nobody else in the category offers it credibly. VPC and on-premise Kubernetes sit between full SaaS and full isolation.
Zero code retention and no training on customer code, backed by SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and ISO 27001 certifications — the documents a procurement team needs before an AI tool gets approved at all.
Enterprise Context Engine and the Agentic Platform, added through 2026, extending from completion into agent workflows: a CLI launched in January 2026 for terminal and CI/CD use, a code review agent, and Jira integration for multi-step SDLC work. Vendor materials claim a substantial lift in code acceptance rates from the context engine; treat that as a vendor number until someone independent measures it.
Gartner Visionary recognition in 2026 for enterprise AI coding agents, which is the kind of thing that matters to a buying committee and to nobody else.
The framing that makes sense of the price: for a bank or defence contractor, the alternative to Tabnine isn't Copilot at $10. It's no AI coding assistance at all, because nothing else clears the security review. Against that baseline, $39 is cheap.
The per-seat licence does not include the infrastructure.
Run models on-premise or air-gapped and you're buying GPU compute yourself — third-party analyses put that at hundreds to thousands of dollars a month depending on team size and model choice. Tabnine's Dell partnership exists precisely because customers need PowerEdge hardware with NVIDIA GPUs to make the air-gapped story real.
So the honest total for a self-hosted deployment is: seats, plus hardware or cloud GPU, plus the engineering time to run it, plus the security review that justified the whole exercise. Anyone comparing $39 against Copilot's $10 as if they're the same shape of number is comparing two different purchases.
You're an individual developer. The company stopped selling to you. This isn't a judgement about fit — it's a fact about the price list.
You have no regulatory constraint. If your code can go to a vendor's cloud, GitHub Copilot at $10 or Cursor at $20 give you more capability for less money. Paying a premium for a compliance posture you don't need is just paying a premium.
You want frontier-model capability first. Tabnine's quality is competent; the leading tools are better on complex work. That gap is the trade for the privacy guarantees.
You need monthly billing. Annual only, which for small teams is a real cash-flow consideration and for some procurement processes is a blocker in itself.
Against GitHub Copilot: Copilot is $10 individual, $19 per business seat, with unmetered completions and native GitHub integration. It's cheaper, more capable on most work, and cloud-only. If your security review permits cloud transmission, this comparison ends quickly. If it doesn't, Copilot isn't in the running at any price.
Against Cursor: Cursor at $20 has stronger agent workflows and the largest install base in the category, with no air-gapped option. Same logic: capability versus deployment constraints, and only one of those is negotiable in a regulated environment.
Against Cline with local models: Cline is free, open source, and pointed at a local model through Ollama it never sends code anywhere. That's genuinely air-gapped for zero licence cost — and it comes with no SOC 2 report, no support contract, and nobody to name in an audit. For a solo developer with privacy concerns, this is the answer. For an enterprise, the missing paperwork is exactly what Tabnine sells.
Against Aider: Aider covers the same local-model ground from the terminal with better git integration and no cost beyond inference. Same trade-off as Cline: technically comparable isolation, none of the compliance apparatus.
Against Devin Desktop: Devin Desktop — formerly Windsurf, formerly Codeium — is a cloud IDE with no air-gap story and a recent change of ownership. For ex-Tabnine users looking for a replacement, it doesn't solve any of the problems that would have put you on Tabnine in the first place.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code Assistant | $39/user/mo | Annual | Completions, IDE chat, IP protection, flexible deployment |
| Agentic Platform | $59/user/mo | Annual | Adds autonomous agents, MCP tools, CLI, unlimited codebase connections |
| Enterprise | Custom | Annual, contracted | VPC, on-premise, air-gapped, Enterprise Context Engine, governance |
| Self-hosting compute | Separate | — | GPU infrastructure, hundreds to thousands monthly |
Checked August 2026 against Tabnine's published pricing and current third-party analyses. There is no free tier (sunset April 2025) and no individual or monthly plan (Dev removed in release 5.24.0, late 2025). Listings quoting $9 or $12 tiers are stale. Self-hosted deployments carry compute costs the licence does not include — confirm both halves on tabnine.com/pricing before budgeting.
Price the infrastructure at the same time as the seats. For air-gapped deployments the compute can rival or exceed the licence cost, and discovering that after signing is a bad quarter.
If you don't need the compliance story, don't buy this. It's the clearest buying rule in the category. The premium is entirely the deployment posture.
If you're an individual who liked Tabnine, look at local models. Cline or Aider with Ollama gives you the isolation without the enterprise contract you can no longer sign anyway.
Tabnine is now a narrow product sold well. Air-gapped on-premise deployment, zero code retention, models that don't train on your code, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, a Gartner Visionary placement, and a Dell hardware partnership to make the isolated deployments practical — that's a coherent package for defence, finance and healthcare teams, and remarkably few competitors can match it at any price. For those buyers the alternative isn't a cheaper tool, it's no AI assistance surviving the security review.
Everything else about the 2026 Tabnine is a subtraction. The free tier is gone. The $12 individual plan is gone. Monthly billing is gone. Entry is $39 per seat annually and you buy as a team. Output quality remains competent rather than leading, so anyone without a regulatory constraint is paying more for less. And the licence doesn't include the compute that self-hosting requires, which is the line item most first-time budgets miss.
The strategic logic holds — $9 plans and enterprise inference don't coexist — but the pivot stranded the audience that made the name recognisable, and the stale $12 figures still circulating mean plenty of people meet the new reality at the checkout.
For regulated teams that can't send code to a vendor, recommend without hesitation and budget the hardware. For everyone else, this is the wrong tool at the wrong price.
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Best for: Defence, finance and healthcare teams, air-gapped environments, organisations whose security review blocks cloud AI tools, enterprises needing SOC 2 and ISO documentation Not ideal for: Individual developers (no longer sold to them), teams without regulatory constraints, anyone needing monthly billing, users who want frontier-model capability first Bottom line: The best air-gapped AI coding option available, at a price and contract shape that only makes sense if compliance is the reason you're buying. If it isn't, everything else is cheaper and better.
No. Tabnine Basic was sunset on April 2, 2025, announced in a post titled 'Scaling Enterprise AI: Why we're sunsetting Tabnine Basic' and replaced with a 90-day Dev Preview. The framing was unusually direct — the company was reorienting around enterprise customers and the free tier no longer fitted that strategy. Any comparison page listing a free Tabnine plan in 2026 is working from stale data.
Code Assistant at $39 per user monthly and Agentic Platform at $59, both billed annually with no monthly option. Enterprise deployments — VPC, on-premise, air-gapped — are custom-quoted on top. There is no individual licence: you buy as a team or not at all. Several third-party listings still show $9 or $12 Dev plans, which are 2025 captures of a plan removed in release 5.24.0.
Eliminated in release 5.24.0 in late 2025. Existing Dev customers were either migrated to Code Assistant at the new price or churned, and Reddit threads from February 2026 record long-standing Pro subscribers receiving cancellation emails. The economics are defensible even if the execution stung — running enterprise-grade inference at scale doesn't support a $9 monthly plan — but a lot of individual developers were stranded with little notice.
Yes, and it's the reason the company still exists. Tabnine offers zero code retention, models that don't train on customer code, and four deployment modes including fully air-gapped on-premise with no internet connection at all. It holds SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and ISO 27001 certifications, and was named a Gartner Visionary for enterprise AI coding agents in 2026. For defence, finance and healthcare teams, this is the difference between having an AI coding tool and having none.
No, and this catches people budgeting. The per-user licence does not include infrastructure. If you run models on-premise or air-gapped, you pay for the GPU compute yourself, which third-party analyses put at hundreds to thousands of dollars monthly depending on team size and model. Tabnine partners with Dell on PowerEdge hardware with NVIDIA GPUs for exactly this. Budget the licence and the iron separately.
Competitive, not category-leading, and that's been the consistent read for a while. Tabnine's completions and chat are solid; the frontier tools generally produce stronger results on complex work. The company's 2026 push — the Agentic Platform, the Enterprise Context Engine, the CLI launched in January — narrows that gap, with claimed improvements in code acceptance rates that come from the vendor rather than independent testing. If you have no privacy constraint, you're paying more for less capability.
Tabnine no longer sells to you, so the question is which privacy posture you actually need. If it was about code never leaving your machine, run local models through Cline or Aider with Ollama — genuinely air-gapped, genuinely free. If you just wanted cheap completion, GitHub Copilot at $10 has a free tier and unmetered completions. Neither gives you a compliance document, which is the thing Tabnine's price actually buys.
Still the fastest issue tracker for engineering teams — and after the plan restructure, the tier with the good features costs $16 instead of $50.
The AI code editor that became the default — now rebuilt around parallel agents in Cursor 3, with its own Composer models.
Terminal-native, model-agnostic, git-obsessed. Cheaper than the vendor CLIs and slightly less accurate — an explicit trade, not a hidden one.