Tabnine - AI Autocomplete & Chat for Javascript, Python, Typescript, PHP, Go, Java & more

Tabnine was a MUST HAVE extension. It would predict your next keystroke and sometimes it was just WOW; HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?.

Imagine you have a private string $firstName property in PHP. By starting to type private function set, Tabnine would understand you are probably creating a setter and would then suggest setFirstName(string $firstname).

<?php

class Customer
{
    private string $firstName;?

    private function set // <=== Tabnine will predict and propose setFirstName(string $firstname)?
}

Another example...

Imagine the code below and take a look at the __construct method. We need to handle the $price parameter. We need to call the setter for it.

<?php

class Product
{
    private string $productName = '';?
    private float $productPrice = 0;?

    public function __construct(string $name='', float $price=0)?
    {
        $this->setProductName($name);?
    }

    public function getProductName(): string {
        return $this->productName;
    }

    public function setProductName(string $name): void {
        $this->productName = $name;
    }

    public function getProductPrice(): float {
        return $this->productPrice;
    }

    public function setProductPrice(float $price): void {
        $this->productPrice = $price;
    }
}

And here is how VSCode predicted keystrokes when Tabnine was enabled. As you can see, Tabnine predicted that, after typing $this-, the setProductPrice method would follow — and it even knew the function required a parameter, suggesting the $price one.

It was really amazing.

By default, Tabnine worked offline and did not use any cloud data provider. It also had a strong privacy pitch: it never stored or shared your code without explicit opt-in.

Bye bye, Tabnine​

What made Tabnine stand out — offline-first, strong privacy guarantees, genuinely impressive code prediction — was real. It was one of the best free AI coding tools available in its time.

Then came the pricing changes. The free tier disappeared in April 2025. The individual Dev plan followed in October 2025. Today, Tabnine is an enterprise product starting at $39/user/month. For individual developers, it simply does not exist anymore.

There is nothing left to install, nothing left to try. Tabnine as we knew it is gone. Goodbye.