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by Crazyontap 1465 days ago
Having just purchased copilot and a user of Tabnine in the past (using Phpstorm) here is my own personal opinion. The suggestions offered by Tabnine weren't anywhere good as copilot - not even by a long shot (at least for PHP and Javascript).

But almost an year has passed since I used this so I don't know if they have had a major update and the results are improved, but previously 1 out of 10 tabnine suggestions were barely useful, compared to 9 out of 10 with copilot.

Since it's a paid offering now I really hope they've upped their game.

2 comments

Hi, Tabnine's DevRel here. The past 12 months have been quite a journey, and a lot has changed. To make a long story short: We've trained 12 standalone models that are now used to serve highly accurate code completions based on current project & file context. I encourage you to give it another go.

Tabnine CEO Dror Weiss, wrote this detailed thread explaining some of the key differences (both in technology and user-approach) between Tabnine and Copilot: https://twitter.com/drorwe/status/1539293063117516801

I 100% agree with this.
Whereas I only agree with it 78.65%