- About
- Self-hosted AI coding assistant, an on-premises alternative to GitHub Copilot.
- Catalogue
- No. 309
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- AI
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Overview
Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant that gives a team code completion and chat on its own hardware. It is self-contained, with no database or cloud service required, runs on consumer-grade GPUs, and has extensions for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs and other editors.
What it does well
Tabby offers code completion, a chat side panel and an Answer Engine whose answers can be saved as shareable pages. It can index your repositories, GitLab merge requests and your own documentation as context. It exposes an OpenAPI interface for connecting to existing infrastructure such as cloud IDEs, and supports LDAP authentication and switching between chat models.
Why it’s in the collection
Tabby lets a team get Copilot-style completion and chat while keeping its code and model on its own servers. The core is Apache-licensed; enterprise features sit in a separate folder under their own license.
On GitHub
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- Repository
- TabbyML/tabby
Languages
- Rust 92.9%
- Python 4.5%
- HTML 1.2%
- Other 1.4%
Compared with
GitHub CopilotGitHub's hosted AI coding assistant.
Devin DesktopCognition's AI code editor, formerly Windsurf.
CursorAI-first code editor built on VS Code.
See every open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot and Cursor in the collection.



