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twinny, an open-source alternative to Tabnine.
Tabnine is the closest of the established tools: it can be deployed on your own infrastructure, air-gapped if needed, on its enterprise tier. twinny starts from that position for everyone. The difference is the contract, the price, and the source.
Tabnine twinny
Where your code goes Tabnine SaaS, or your own deployment on the enterprise tier Your own model server, always
Who runs the model Tabnine, or you on the enterprise tier You, on any OpenAI-compatible server
Works with no internet On the air-gapped enterprise deployment Yes
Editor VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Eclipse and others VS Code
Source Closed Open, MIT
Account required Tabnine account per user None
Team administration Tabnine's admin console twinny-server: keys, usage, policy and an admin page on your network
List price per user per month $39, or $59 for the agentic tier, billed yearly Free for 5 seats on a gateway; $6 per extra seat, billed yearly.
Tabnine facts and prices are from its own pricing page, read in September 2026. They change; the page will be corrected when they do. twinny prices are per seat per month, billed yearly.
pick Tabnine when
- You need JetBrains, Eclipse or Visual Studio as well as VS Code.
- You want a vendor to run the models for you and a contract to point at.
pick twinny when
- You want on-prem at a price a team lead can approve without procurement.
- You already run a model server and want the editor side to just use it.
- You want to read the code that handles your code.