What is Tabby?
Coding assistant you run on your own GPU, with code completion, chat and answers from your repos.
Who is Tabby best for?
Tabby is best for engineering teams that want AI code completion and chat without code leaving their servers.
Code that cannot leave the company
The server, the model and the index of your repositories all run on hardware you control, with no outside service in between.
Teams with their own GPUs
Small open models from 1B parameters run on consumer graphics cards or Apple Silicon, and larger ones such as Qwen2.5-Coder or CodeLlama can be swapped in.
Answers from internal code
The Answer Engine and context providers draw on your GitHub or GitLab repositories, merge requests and your own documentation.
Small teams on a budget
The Community edition is free for up to 5 users, with completion, chat and the Answer Engine included.
How much does Tabby cost?
Tabby's Community edition is free to self-host for up to 5 users; the Team plan costs $19 per user per month for up to 50 users, and Enterprise is priced on request.
- Community edition, up to 5 users
- Code completion, Answer Engine and inline chat
- Community support
- Up to 50 users
- Flexible deployment
- Email support
Enterprise is priced on request and billed yearly, with unlimited users, single sign-on, an authentication domain, IDE telemetry policies and a dedicated Slack channel. Every plan runs on your own hardware or cloud account. Full pricing on tabbyml.com. We checked these prices on .
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Is Tabby open source?
Yes. Tabby's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
33,936stars
+24 (+0.1%) in the last 30 days
- Last commit
- 30 Jun
- Repository age
- 3 years
- Latest release
- 25 Jan
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- TabbyML/tabby
What are the best Tabby alternatives?
Tabby is an open source alternative to Cursor, GitHub Copilot and CodeGPT. OpenCode, Refact.ai and Zed do the same job and are open source too.
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Questions about Tabby
What is Tabby?
Coding assistant you run on your own GPU, with code completion, chat and answers from your repos.
Who is Tabby for?
Tabby is best for engineering teams that want AI code completion and chat without code leaving their servers.
Is Tabby free?
Yes. Tabby has a free Self-hosted plan: community edition, up to 5 users.
How much does Tabby cost?
Tabby's paid plans are Team at $19 per user per month.
Is Tabby open source?
Yes. Tabby's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best Tabby alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Cursor, GitHub Copilot, CodeGPT, OpenCode, Refact.ai and Zed.
Where can I try Tabby?
On its official website, tabbyml.com.
Does Tabby need a GPU?
Tabby is meant to run on a GPU. The maker recommends at least an NVIDIA T4, a 10 or 20 series card or Apple Silicon such as the M1 for 1B to 3B models, and a V100, A100 or 30 or 40 series card for 7B to 13B models.







