Augment Code vs Tabnine

An agentic coding platform priced flat rather than per seat -- up to 50 users on a single subscription. An enterprise coding assistant whose differentiator is privacy -- zero code retention, IP indemnity, and on-premises or air-gapped deployment.

At a glance

Augment CodeTabnine
Entry price$20/mo$39/seat/mo
Free tierNoNo
Plans offered32
Team pricing$100/mo$39/seat/mo
VendorAugment CodeTabnine
Best forSmall and mid-sized teams, where flat pricing is dramatically cheaper than per-seatRegulated industries where code cannot leave the network
Main trade-offThe included usage is a dollar budget, not unlimited -- $20/month of LLM and compute goes quickly across a real team, and top-ups are extraFour to six times the price of Copilot Pro for an individual

The short answer

Choose Augment Code if small and mid-sized teams, where flat pricing is dramatically cheaper than per-seat. Choose Tabnine if regulated industries where code cannot leave the network. The rest of this page is the detail behind that.

Pricing

Augment Code

PlanPriceWhat it adds
Standard$20/moFlat, not per seat · Up to 50 seats · $20 of LLM, context and compute usage · CLI and MCP support · SOC 2 Type II · 50 concurrent sessions
Business$100/moFlat, not per seat · Up to 50 seats · $100 of included usage
EnterpriseCustomUnlimited users · Multi-region compute · CMEK, ISO 42001 · SSO/OIDC/SCIM

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Tabnine

PlanPriceWhat it adds
Code Assistant Platform$39/seat/moAnnual subscription · Completions and IDE chat · All major IDEs · Zero code retention · SaaS, VPC, on-prem or air-gapped
Agentic Platform$59/seat/moAnnual subscription · Autonomous agents · Tabnine CLI · Unlimited codebase context · MCP tool support · Governance and analytics

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Augment Code

Strengths

  • Flat pricing for up to 50 seats is genuinely unusual -- a ten-person team pays $20/month total, where a per-seat competitor at $39 would charge $390
  • No training on your data on every tier, including the cheapest
  • SOC 2 Type II at the $20 entry point rather than reserved for enterprise
  • Codebase context engine plus CLI and MCP tooling

Trade-offs

  • The included usage is a dollar budget, not unlimited -- $20/month of LLM and compute goes quickly across a real team, and top-ups are extra
  • No free plan
  • Less established than Copilot or Cursor, with a smaller community to lean on
  • Standard and Business differ only in included usage, so the tier choice is purely a spend decision

Augment Code: who it suits

Buy it if

  • Small and mid-sized teams, where flat pricing is dramatically cheaper than per-seat
  • Organisations needing SOC 2 and no-training guarantees without enterprise pricing
  • Teams wanting agentic workflows in both editor and terminal

Skip it if

  • Individual developers -- the flat-rate advantage only exists across a team, and $20 buys less usage than a per-seat plan gives one person
  • Heavy users, since the included budget is consumed quickly and top-ups then apply
  • Anyone who needs a free tier to evaluate

Tabnine

Strengths

  • Air-gapped and on-premises deployment, which almost nothing else in this category offers
  • Zero code retention and license-safe AI with IP protection -- the reason regulated industries buy it
  • Broad IDE coverage rather than a single editor
  • Jira and Confluence integration built in

Trade-offs

  • Four to six times the price of Copilot Pro for an individual
  • No free tier or advertised trial
  • Annual commitment on both tiers
  • Raw coding capability is not obviously ahead of cheaper tools -- you are paying for deployment and governance

Tabnine: who it suits

Buy it if

  • Regulated industries where code cannot leave the network
  • Enterprises needing IP indemnity and audit controls
  • Teams standardising coding practice across many IDEs

Skip it if

  • Individual developers -- at $39/seat annually this is priced for procurement, not for you
  • Anyone who wants to try before committing, since there is no free tier
  • Teams whose main criterion is raw model quality, where cheaper tools compete well
Visit Tabninefrom $39/seat/mo

Common questions

Is Augment Code or Tabnine cheaper?
Augment Code starts at $20/mo and Tabnine at $39/seat/mo. Augment Code is cheaper at entry level, though the allowances differ.
Who should not use Augment Code?
Individual developers -- the flat-rate advantage only exists across a team, and $20 buys less usage than a per-seat plan gives one person. Heavy users, since the included budget is consumed quickly and top-ups then apply. Anyone who needs a free tier to evaluate.
Who should not use Tabnine?
Individual developers -- at $39/seat annually this is priced for procurement, not for you. Anyone who wants to try before committing, since there is no free tier. Teams whose main criterion is raw model quality, where cheaper tools compete well.
Does Augment Code or Tabnine have a free tier?
Neither offers a free tier, so evaluating either means paying for at least one month.