Tabnine: AI Coding Assistant for Faster and Safer Development

Overview of Tabnine - AI Assistant for Faster and Safer Code Delivery

Tabnine is an AI assistant that helps developers write code faster while keeping it safe and secure. It provides intelligent code completions and suggestions in your IDE based on your codebase and permissible open source code.

Tabnine aims to boost developer productivity by automating repetitive coding tasks. It adapts to your coding style and codebase to provide relevant recommendations.

How Tabnine Works

Tabnine utilizes machine learning models trained on open source code to generate code completions and suggestions tailored to your codebase.

It studies the way you write code to recommend completions that match your coding style and preferences.
The models run locally on your machine to keep your code private and secure.
It integrates seamlessly into popular IDEs like VSCode, IntelliJ, PyCharm etc.

When you start typing code, Tabnine scans your codebase and suggests completions for the next token or line. If you accept a suggestion, Tabnine incorporates your feedback to improve further recommendations.

Features and Benefits

Tabnine offers intelligent code completion and generation capabilities:

Code Completion

Line completions - Suggests completion for the entire line based on context.
Function definition completion - Generates full function definition using the function declaration.
Code generation from comments - Creates code blocks from comments describing the functionality.

Benefits:

Reduces repetitive coding
Speeds up development cycles
Promotes code consistency and best practices

Security

Fully private - No code leaves your environment. Models run locally on your machines.
Trained only on permissible open source code - Eliminates privacy, security and compliance risks.

Benefits:

Provides code suggestions securely without exposing IP
Stays compliant with security policies
Respects licenses and developer intent

Customization

Adaptability to codebase - Improves continuously by learning from your codebase without seeing actual code.
Remembers your coding style - Generates code tailored to your preferences.
Central configuration - Enforce organization-wide assistant configuration.

Benefits:

Code recommendations are highly contextual and relevant
Coding standardization across teams
Control over assistant behavior

IDE Integration

Supports all popular IDEs - VSCode, IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm etc.
Easy setup - Simple plugins make Tabnine readily available in your IDE.

Benefits:

Coding assistance available where you need it
Start benefiting quickly with minimal effort

Chat Capabilities

Chat interface to Tabnine assistant - Ask questions and get code recommendations through chat.
Code generation and explanation - Get code generated and explained for given tasks.
Search codebase - Plain text search queries for your organizational code.

Benefits:

Faster discovery of code solutions
Accelerates onboarding with chat-based assistance
Easier investigation into existing codebase

Use Cases

Tabnine boosts productivity across the entire coding lifecycle:

Faster Coding

The core benefit Tabnine provides is accelerated development by reducing repetitive coding effort. It is especially useful for:

Codifying common logic and patterns
Implementing standard library usage
Encoding complex business logic

For example, Tabnine can automatically generate code for reading a file, connecting to a database, or mapping data objects.

Code Reviews

By standardizing code and promoting reuse, Tabnine can help streamline code reviews. Benefits include:

Less back-and-forth communication for standard code patterns
Focus reviews on logic rather than syntax
Ensure best practices are shareable and reusable

Onboarding

Onboarding engineers can get intelligently customized code recommendations from their first day.

Get them productive faster by providing code assistance for ramp-up tasks
Reduce dependency on senior engineers for questions
Enable learning the codebase by providing contextual recommendations

Refactoring

Tabnine suggestions can highlight areas to apply improvements.

Apply modern patterns for legacy systems
Adopt new libraries or capabilities
Improve readability, performance or security

Who is Tabnine For?

Tabnine aims to help all developers write better code faster. Specific personas that benefit:

Software Engineers

Reduce daily repetitive coding
Maintain focus on complex tasks vs. mundane

Architects

Guide and align team development
Upgrade existing systems with modern best practices

Managers

Shorten release cycles to deliver value faster
Reallocate resources from maintenance to innovation

Students

Accelerate learning with coding assistant for assignments
Understand how to apply coding best practices

Essentially any developer from beginner to expert can benefit from code assistance.

Pricing and Plans

Tabnine offers free and paid personal plans, along with enterprise licensing:

Personal - Free basic code suggestions for individual developers.
Pro - $10/mo billed annually - Advanced code completions with priority support.
Enterprise - Contact sales - On-premise AI assistant customized for large development teams.

Compare pricing and plans

Free personal plans are fully-featured but have request limits. Paid plans enable higher usage.