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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GitHub Copilot

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AGitHub Copilot is presented as an AI pair programmer, that plugs into the user's editor. It then turns natural language prompts into code, offers multi-line function suggestions, speeds up test generation, filters out common vulnerable coding patterns, and blocks suggestions matching public code.

    $10

    per month

    Google Gemini

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Gemini is a natively multimodal agentic platform designed to synthesize and act upon data across text, image, audio, and video modalities. It serves as a centralized intelligence layer that integrates across the Google Workspace ecosystem and Android/ChromeOS platforms to perform autonomous, multi-step tasks.N/A

    Tabnine

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ATabnine’s AI code completion assistant automates repetitive work and eliminates the need for time-consuming code searches.N/A
    Pricing
    GitHub CopilotGoogle GeminiTabnine
    Editions & Modules
    CoPilot for Individuals
    $10
    per month
    CoPilot for Business
    $19
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitHub CopilotGoogle GeminiTabnine
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GitHub CopilotGoogle GeminiTabnine
    Considered Multiple Products
    GitHub
    Chose GitHub Copilot
    It is useful that copilot integrates so well with vscode, which is a very common IDE. I used Tabnine for a little while but it was not that intuitive, and did not seem as helpful as GitHub copilot was. I have enjoyed GitHub copilot a lot, especially the ease of hitting the tab …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub Copilot
    I used Cursor AI as well, along with CoPilot. Curson has its own AI editor, but Copilot works with almost every code editor. So I don't need to depend on just one editor, and I get the flexibility to choose my own editors. The billing is also good and doesn't require many …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub Copilot
    It has historically worked much better. However, as all of this is relatively new technology it is hard to really judge something since most of the time you are kind of using a beta version of a product. I believe things will get better over time. That said, Microsoft copilot …
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    Google
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    Tabnine
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    GitHub CopilotGoogle GeminiTabnine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    8.6
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GitHub CopilotGoogle GeminiTabnine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GitHub
    Copilit is fantastic at the following: 1. Solving simple, well-defined problems, such as implementing an algorithm, manipulating a data structure, or string manipulation and regex. 2. Implementing simple APIs that are mainly CRUD in nature, with moderate business logic inside them, which may involve some processing or passing the data through an algorithm. 3. Implementation of well-defined activities, such as implementing a connection to an Oracle DB using Hibernate or JDBC, or implementing boilerplate code for a backend service to listen to Kafka events. It is not that great when it comes to understanding and implementing code in a proprietary DSL. It struggles when implementing a major feature across a complex codebase. I believe developers should also adopt the trust-but-verify paradigm when expecting highly secure or regulated code from GitHub Copilot.
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    Google
    Gemini is fantastic for receiving quick answers to questions where accuracy is not paramount. It is great for brainstorming ideas. It is also fantastic for analysing large swathes of unformatted data and finding correlations. Gemini can also transcribe handwriting and audio files making it excellent for formative assessment. It can also now create Google Slides which is great for lesson planning. Gemini is only as good as the prompts you provide it with though so you must remember to be exact with your prompts to get the best outputs.
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    Tabnine
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    Pros
    GitHub
    • Make code development faster and quicker.
    • Helps write better code standards for projects.
    • Provide the latest functions from the technology.
    • Notifies about the deprecated functions.
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    Google
    • The new image editing functionality surprised me
    • In general, file loading is better than in other AI programs
    • I think it's somewhat faster than other AI programs, or at least that's the impression it usually gives
    • Features like canvas and deep research are very interesting
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    Tabnine
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    Cons
    GitHub
    • The only issue I faced is the context token size, it can be increase.
    • Sometime with agent mode it takes too much time, which can be reduced but I understand it also depends on the complexity of the given task.
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    Google
    • Faces in generated images can be kind of scary looking, deformed.
    • When asking for specific text in an image, it often generates funky randomly spelled text instead.
    • Tried a bulk image search with uploaded png files to find the same images online and the links it provided were 404 errors instead.
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    Tabnine
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    Usability
    GitHub
    I feel that GitHub Copilot's overall usability is good due to its tight integration with Visual Studio and the workspace. However, developers expect greater ease of use, as there is a learning curve to realize productivity gains with the tool fully. I think there is room for improvement in GitHub Copilot's UI integration within Visual Studio.
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    Google
    It's standard usability interface - no problems or challenges using it. I do prefer Claude still because of the different options/modes you can toggle on and off. I don't think Gemini has those options. It's a great daily companion for quick problem solving but not great for larger projects or conversations
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    Tabnine
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    Alternatives Considered
    GitHub
    It is useful that copilot integrates so well with vscode, which is a very common IDE. I used Tabnine for a little while but it was not that intuitive, and did not seem as helpful as GitHub copilot was. I have enjoyed GitHub copilot a lot, especially the ease of hitting the tab key and seeing quick progress in my tasks.
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    Google
    Gemini seems very simple to use, veyr similar to ChatGPT, I wish they did have a capability such as ChatGPT projects one, so one can separate topics easily, it's very customizable, where I believe it defeats the others is that, is already very simple to use all of Google ecosystem, such as Drive, docs, sheets and else
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    Tabnine
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    Return on Investment
    GitHub
    • Our ROI of the purchase of Copilot was met in less than a day. The timesave cannot be overstated
    • Programmer boredom/dissatisfaction is down because of less repetetive crud work.
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    Google
    • Free way to gain another team member
    • Helps me be more efficient and overcome blocks in my workflow
    • Speeds up my ability to update our website's calendar by easily double if not more
    • Allows me to dabble in areas that I have no expertise in such as coding
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    Tabnine
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