Tabnine After Tricentis vs Bodega One Code
Tabnine abandoned individual developers, then got acquired. We did neither.
On April 2, 2025, Tabnine killed its free tier. On October 16, 2025, it eliminated the individual Dev plan entirely in release 5.24.0. On July 30, 2026, Tricentis, an enterprise software-testing company, acquired Tabnine and is folding its Enterprise Context Engine into its testing platform. tabnine.com/pricing now redirects to a Tricentis contact-sales page, so current self-serve pricing is no longer published anywhere we can verify. Bodega One Code is free for everyone in the open beta, commercial use included (a TBD one-time Pro commercial license arrives at full release). No subscription. No acquisition pending. If you want the full field ranked, read the six best Tabnine alternatives in 2026.
What changed. What did not.
Tabnine is an AI coding assistant that removed its free tier on April 2, 2025, and eliminated its individual Dev plan entirely on October 16, 2025 (release 5.24.0), moving to enterprise-only pricing that last listed Code Assistant at $39/user/month and Agentic Platform at $59/user/month. On July 30, 2026, Tricentis, an enterprise software-testing company, acquired Tabnine. Tricentis says it will integrate Tabnine's Enterprise Context Engine into its Agentic Quality Engineering Platform; it has not published plans for the standalone coding assistant. tabnine.com/pricing now redirects to a Tricentis contact-sales page, so current self-serve pricing can no longer be verified; existing users can still log in and reach docs and support. Bodega One Code is a standalone local-first AI IDE, free for everyone in the open beta (a TBD one-time Pro commercial license arrives at full release), with no subscription and no enterprise agreement required.
Tabnine (after the Tricentis acquisition)
- Acquired by Tricentis on July 30, 2026. Its Enterprise Context Engine is being folded into Tricentis's testing platform, not sold as a standalone coding assistant
- tabnine.com/pricing now redirects to a Tricentis contact-sales page. No current self-serve pricing is published
- Free tier killed April 2, 2025. The trial had since shortened to 14 days (Dev Preview, no credit card) or 30 days (Dev trial, credit card required), both gateways to enterprise pricing rather than a standalone individual plan
- Individual Dev plan eliminated October 16, 2025 (release 5.24.0). No individual plan existed before the acquisition either
- Last publicly listed pricing (pre-acquisition): Code Assistant from $39/user/month, Agentic Platform $59/user/month, enterprise contracts only
- Code processed on Tabnine's cloud servers despite privacy-first marketing
- Plugin only: requires VS Code or JetBrains, no standalone IDE
Bodega One Code
- Free for everyone in the open beta, commercial use included. At full release: free Personal (1 machine), TBD one-time Pro (2 machines, commercial). No renewal.
- True local-first: models run on your machine, not our servers
- Full standalone IDE with Monaco editor, AI chat, and autonomous agent
- BYOLLM: 10+ providers. Swap any time. No lock-in.
- Air-gap mode: 9 enforcement layers. Zero bytes leave your machine.
What Tabnine used to offer. And what it never built.
Free in the Open Beta
Tabnine's last published Code Assistant price was $39/user/month ($468/year) before Tricentis acquired the company and pulled its pricing page down. Bodega One Code is free for everyone in the open beta, commercial use included. At full release, Personal stays free and a TBD one-time commercial Pro license applies. Either way, Bodega One Code costs nothing today, with no enterprise sales process required.
Actually Local
Tabnine markets itself as privacy-first, but code is processed on their cloud servers unless you are on an Enterprise on-prem plan, historically priced from $39/user/month before the Tricentis acquisition. Bodega One Code runs models on your hardware via Ollama. The code stays on your machine. Not a policy. An architecture.
Full IDE, Not a Plugin
Tabnine is a VS Code and JetBrains extension. It lives inside someone else's editor. Bodega One Code is a standalone Electron app with Monaco editor, AI chat, autonomous agent, and 34+ built-in tools. No host editor required.
No Vendor Abandonment
Tabnine's enterprise pivot already meant individual developers were no longer the product focus, and the Tricentis acquisition folded its core technology into an enterprise testing platform. Bodega One Code was built for individual developers and small teams. That is our core audience. We cannot pivot away from you. You are the product.
QEL Verification
Quality Enforcement Layer runs three verification levels on every code change. Pattern checks, compile gates, structural verification. Not a linter. A verification pipeline that catches what raw LLM output misses.
BYOLLM
10+ provider presets. Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Together AI, OpenRouter, and more. You choose the model. You control the cost. No Tabnine inference markup sitting between you and the model.
The numbers. The gap. The difference.
Cost Over Time (Tabnine Code Assistant, pre-acquisition pricing, vs Bodega One Code)
| Period | Tabnine Code Assistant (pre-acquisition) | Bodega One Code |
|---|---|---|
| 1 month | $39/month | Free (beta) |
| 3 months | $117 | Free (beta) |
| 12 months | $468 | Free (beta) |
| 24 months | $936 | Free (beta) |
| 36 months | $1,404 | Free (beta) |
Bodega One Code is free for everyone in the open beta; a TBD one-time Pro commercial license arrives at full release. Tabnine's last published prices, before Tricentis acquired the company on July 30, 2026, were $39/user/month (Code Assistant) and $59/user/month (Agentic Platform), enterprise contracts only. tabnine.com/pricing now redirects to Tricentis contact-sales, so current pricing cannot be verified. Checked 2026-09-26.
The Privacy Gap
Tabnine markets itself as privacy-first. The reality: code is processed on Tabnine's cloud infrastructure unless you are on an Enterprise on-prem plan, historically priced from $39/user/month before the Tricentis acquisition pulled that pricing page down. Bodega One Code's air-gap mode enforces 9 independent enforcement layers on your local machine. No enterprise license required.
What Reviews Actually Say
G2 reviews after the free tier removal: "More expensive but worst performance." "Glitchy, generates garbage code." Tabnine's Gartner Magic Quadrant designation was real, for enterprise IT buyers, before the Tricentis acquisition folded its technology into a testing platform. Individual developer sentiment told a different story even before that.
Air-Gap Without the Enterprise Contract
Tabnine's air-gap deployment required an Enterprise agreement, IT infrastructure, and historically $39/user/month before the Tricentis acquisition; current pricing is unpublished. Bodega One Code includes air-gap mode in every plan. 9 independent enforcement layers: tool filtering, shell blocking, auto-updater blocking, git IPC blocking, and more. Disable one and the other eight still hold. Zero bytes leave your machine.
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Code that lands clean.
Every file Bodega One Code writes passes through three verification levels before the change lands. Pattern and compile checks after every write. Micro-proof gates every second write. A full structural verifier at loop end. Not a linter. A verification pipeline. Tabnine does not have this.
Incremental Verification
Pattern and compile check after every file write.
Micro-Proof Gates
tsc / py_compile runs every second write.
Full Verification
Structural verifier post-loop. Pass threshold 80 for new files.
Switching from
Tabnine.
What actually happened to Tabnine?+
Tricentis, an enterprise software-testing company, acquired Tabnine on July 30, 2026. Tricentis says it will integrate Tabnine's Enterprise Context Engine into its Agentic Quality Engineering Platform; it has not published plans for the standalone coding assistant. tabnine.com/pricing now redirects to a Tricentis contact-sales page, so current self-serve pricing for the coding assistant is no longer published anywhere we can verify. Existing users can still log in and reach docs and support. Before the acquisition, Tabnine had already eliminated its free tier (April 2, 2025) and its individual Dev plan (October 16, 2025), moving to enterprise-only pricing that listed Code Assistant at $39/user/month and Agentic Platform at $59/user/month. Bodega One Code was built for the current generation of local-first, agentic AI coding, outside that enterprise-testing direction entirely.
Tabnine offers on-prem and air-gapped deployment. Can Bodega One Code match that?+
Before the Tricentis acquisition, Tabnine's on-prem and air-gap options were Enterprise features that reportedly started at $39/user/month (Code Assistant tier), requiring a deployment agreement and IT infrastructure. That pricing is no longer published now that tabnine.com routes to Tricentis sales. Bodega One Code's air-gap mode is built into the base product. The open beta is free for everyone and includes it, and at full release both the free Personal tier and the TBD one-time Pro commercial license keep it. No enterprise contract required. No IT team needed. You enable it in settings.
I relied on Tabnine's free tier for years. Is Bodega One Code going to do the same thing?+
Right now the app is in open beta and free for everyone, commercial use included. At full release, the Personal tier stays free for personal use and a TBD one-time Pro commercial license arrives. There is no subscription to lapse. The product you download is the product you own. If we ship improvements, you get them, no renewal required.
Does Bodega One Code support as many models as Tabnine?+
Tabnine's Enterprise Context Engine was built for broad model deployment across large codebases, and is now the piece Tricentis has folded into its testing platform rather than a standalone coding-assistant feature. Bodega One Code supports 10+ providers with 15+ provider presets covering Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Together AI, OpenRouter, and more. For individual developers and small teams, BYOLLM flexibility is more useful than an enterprise-grade model management layer.
Is Bodega One Code open source?+
No. Bodega One Code is a commercial product with a free Personal tier and a one-time-purchase commercial license. The codebase is not open source. Your data stays on your machine. The code stays on ours.
When is Bodega One Code available?+
Beta is free and open to everyone. Full launch coming later this year. Download free at bodegaone.ai/download.
Ready to make the switch? Read the step-by-step Tabnine migration guide for a full walkthrough: setup, provider selection, and what to expect.
Keep the privacy promise. Lose the subscription.
Free for personal use. Models run on your machine. 34+ built-in tools. An autonomous agent that verifies its own work. Free Personal tier stays free. No enterprise pivot coming.
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