Tabnine vs Zed

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Tabnine is the stronger AI pick in AI Coding Assistants: it has a visibility score of 16 versus 1 for Zed, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose Tabnine if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (16 vs 1)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
You need GDPR or ISO 9001:2015 or ISO/IEC 27001 or SOC 2 coverage
Strong privacy and protection of proprietary code

Choose Zed if…

AI answers describe it more positively (50% vs 38% positive)
Ideal for small teams already on GitHub
Works with VS Code and JetBrains

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Tabnine	Zed
Visibility score	16%	1%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Coding Assistants	#6	#26
Share of voice	6.3%	0.4%
Mentions this run	29	2
Positive in AI answers	38%	50%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Tabnine 0pp · Zed 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Tabnine leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

8.5%

0.9%

AI Mode

28.7%

Perplexity

10.7%

TabnineZed

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1Tabnine ranked higher

0Zed ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Tabnine	Zed
Official website of the top AI coding assistant vendors	ChatGPT	#11	#16

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Tabnine	Zed
Pricing model	—	Per seat
Entry price	—	Free; paid from $10 per seat / mo
Free plan	—	Yes
Deployment	SaaS, VPC, on-premises and air-gapped	Desktop editor on Windows, macOS and Linux, with remote development over SSH, WSL and dev containers. Users can run local Ollama models, and API keys for hosted providers are kept on the local machine.
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2	—
Founded	—	2021
Headquarters	—	Boulder, Colorado
Employees	—	11–50
Funding	Series B · $55M raised	Series B · $42M raised
Best for	—	Developers who want a fast editor with AI optional, and teams that need org-level control over AI features and data sharing through the Business plan.