Tabby vs Continue
Compare Tabby and Continue on deployment, pricing, model support, and more.
Tabby
- Tagline
- Self-hosted AI coding assistant — open-source GitHub Copilot alternative with local model support
- Description
- Tabby is an open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant — a drop-in alternative to GitHub Copilot that runs on your own infrastructure. It supports code completion via StarCoder2, CodeLlama, and other models, connects to VS Code and JetBrains via extension, and can run on consumer GPUs (RTX 3080+) or CPU. No data leaves your network — complete code privacy.
- Category
- Code / DevTools
- Pricing
- Free
- Metric
- 33,874 GitHub stars (source)
- Deployment
- —
- Model support
- —
- Local support
- —
- Open source
- —
- Link
- Visit
Continue
- Tagline
- Open-source IDE AI autocomplete and chat
- Description
- Open-source VS Code and JetBrains extension. Use any LLM API or local model.
- Category
- Code / DevTools
- Pricing
- Free
- Metric
- —
- Deployment
- Extension + your API keys or local models
- Model support
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, Local
- Local support
- Yes
- Open source
- Yes
- Link
- Visit
| Attribute | Tabby | Continue |
|---|---|---|
| Tagline | Self-hosted AI coding assistant — open-source GitHub Copilot alternative with local model support | Open-source IDE AI autocomplete and chat |
| Category | Code / DevTools | Code / DevTools |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| Description | Tabby is an open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant — a drop-in alternative to GitHub Copilot that runs on your own infrastructure. It supports code completion via StarCoder2, CodeLlama, and other models, connects to VS Code and JetBrains via extension, and can run on consumer GPUs (RTX 3080+) or CPU. No data leaves your network — complete code privacy. | Open-source VS Code and JetBrains extension. Use any LLM API or local model. |
| Deployment | — | Extension + your API keys or local models |
| Model support | — | OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, Local |
| Local support | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Metric | 33,874 GitHub stars (source) | — |
| Link | Visit | Visit |