Llama CodervsTabnine
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Llama Coder
Steve Korshakov · IDE extension
#204OSS
Panel
5.23 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.0
- Usefulness
- 3.7
- Cost
- 8.3
- Longevity
- 3.7
“Works best on Apple Silicon, which turns your privacy principles into a laptop procurement request.”
Tabnine
Tabnine (Tricentis) · IDE extension
#108MCP
Panel
5.66 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.2
- Usefulness
- 5.2
- Cost
- 5.0
- Longevity
- 6.2
“The one agent here you can run air-gapped, priced so that only a company with an air gap can afford it.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Llama Coder | Tabnine |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | IDE extension | IDE extension |
| Runs | local | local, cloud |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | No | Yes |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | No |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Code Llama | Tabnine, Claude, GPT, Gemini, Devstral, Qwen, GLM, MiniMax |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | seat |
| Starts at | n/a | $39/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Bring your own key | No | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | No |
| License | MIT | proprietary |
| GitHub stars | 2,087 | n/a |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Llama Coder | Tabnine | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 5.3 | 5.3 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 4.5 | 5.3 | Tabnine — Tabnine's roadmap now belongs to a test-automation company, the agent is a $59-a-seat annual commitment with no free tier to try it on your own repo, and its own models are unbenchmarked. |
| El Profesor | 5.3 | 5.5 | Tabnine — Tabnine's agent is a plan-then-approve loop with eight named tools and a per-file diff gate, sound but conservative; it publishes no benchmark for its own models. |
| La Inversora | 4.0 | 6.0 | Tabnine — The exit already happened, Tricentis in July 2026, so the question is integration, and a test-automation acquirer suggests the roadmap bends toward testing agents. |
| La Jefa | 4.8 | 6.5 | Tabnine — Air-gapped, on-prem, SSO, zero retention, IP indemnification and $59 a seat on annual terms; approved, with a clause about the new owner. |
| El Hacker | 7.3 | 5.3 | Llama Coder — MIT, no telemetry and no tracking stated plainly, and one ollama pull gets me a quantised model, so the whole stack is mine and it works with the network unplugged. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.