BLACKBOX AI vs Tabnine
Both Blackbox AI and Tabnine offers AI coding assistant solutions for developper to improve their productivity. So which solution is better?
We’ve compiled a comparison utilizing the prevalent parameters we’ve come across in our development experience, coupled with our extensive service to the developer community over numerous years. From our perspective, these parameters represent the critical requirements, challenges, and pain points that AI code assistants should address.
- Functionality: Each company has its own features for developers
- Price: Price point for each user in the organization
- Supported IDEs: on which IDE can we find each AI
What is BLACKBOX AI?
BLACKBOX AI completely redefines your coding experience. A codebase represents hours of thought, testing, and above all, coding. There are challenging moments that require great knowledge and concentration, but also frustrating, boring, and tedious moments during certain repetitive but necessary tasks.
BLACKBOX AI has been designed to meet every stage of your development, so you can code faster, but also to enlighten you, and provide precise answers to your questions, saving you valuable time that you could have lost searching for obsolete solutions on specialized forums.
What is Tabnine?
Tabnine is the AI coding assistant that accelerates and simplifies software development while keeping your code private, secure, and compliant. Tabnine boosts engineering velocity, code quality, and developer happiness by automating the coding workflow through AI tools customized to your team.
Functionality
Code chat
Both AIs offer a code chat functionality to quickly ask questions. However, Blackbox stands out by offering a more complete code chat experience since it is integrated into the IDE extension, with web and mobile versions available.
Autocomplete
Both AIs offer automatic code completion in the form of suggestions based on the code base of the current project.
IA README
Both AIs allow you to easily and effortlessly create a detailed readme file for your code, thus facilitating the understanding and guidance of other developers.
Commit Message Generation
Don’t leave any undocumented changes in your commits. BLACKBOX AI takes care of writing a detailed commit message for you, reflecting the achievements made.
Share Code Link
With BLACKBOX AI, you can directly share code with anyone by simply providing them with a URL link to your code. This allows anyone to access it from anywhere with just one click!
Snippet prompt and code
Save your best code snippet for reuse anytime and save time while coding with BLACKBOX AI.
Refactoring and improve code
Both IA offer shortcuts for improving and refactoring existing code for better performance and maintainability.
Mobile code chat
BLACKBOX AI offers an Android mobile application allowing you to ask questions and generate code.
AI Agent
BLACKBOX AI offers a wide choice of AI agents who are experts in their respective fields! You can start a conversation with or call on one of them when writing your prompt.
Custom Agent
With BLACKBOX AI, you can create your own custom agent based on the data you desire, such as files or websites! This agent can be shared with others if you wish!
Send files
Tabnine only works with the codebase, while BLACKBOX AI offers to continue the experience by allowing users to upload not only code but also photos or videos, on which they can ask questions.
Github Action
Let AI code for you! BLACKBOX AI offers GitHub action solutions such as commenting on code, improving code, or generating bug reports directly in your GitHub repository!
Real-Time Knowledge
BLACKBOX AI has real-time knowledge of the world, enabling it to answer questions about recent events, technological breakthroughs, product releases, API documentation, and more importantly, BLACKBOX AI provides sources.
Self-hosted
Tabnine Enterprise customers have the option of deploying a private, self-hosted version of the Tabnine cluster.
API
BLACKBOX AI offers the possibility of obtaining access to its API to integrate its LLM directly into your project.
Pricing
- BLACKBOX AI : Free
- Tabnine Basic: Free
- Tabnine Pro: 12$/user/month
- Tabnine Enterprise: 39$/user/month
BLACKBOX AI offers a complete free service with the exception of the use of its API, which will depend on the number of requests. Unlike Tabnine, which offers a free plan with limited features, providing just AI code completions.
Supported IDEs
Blackbox AI can be found on the following platforms: Vs Code and Jupyter Notebook.
Tabnine can be found on the following platforms: VSCode, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse and Visual Studio 2022.
As of march 2024, the information in this comparison table is up-to-date to the best of our knowledge. However, the industry is rapidly evolving, and there may be updates that we have not yet captured. We strive for accuracy and fairness; if you have any updates or corrections, even if it shows a competitor in a more favorable light, we encourage you to share them with us.