
Tabby Has a Free API — Self-Hosted AI Code Completion Like GitHub Copilot
Tabby is a self-hosted AI code completion server — an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot. Run it on your own hardware, keep your code private, and get intelligent autocomplete in your IDE. Free, open source, with a REST API and IDE extensions for VS Code, IntelliJ, and Vim. Why Use Tabby? Self-hosted — your code never leaves your network Free forever — no subscription, no per-seat pricing IDE support — VS Code, IntelliJ, Neovim, Emacs Code completion — inline suggestions like Copilot Chat — ask questions about your codebase RAG — indexes your repo for context-aware completions Quick Setup 1. Install # Docker (recommended) docker run -it --gpus all -p 8080:8080 \ -v $HOME /.tabby:/data \ tabbyml/tabby serve --model StarCoder-1B --device cuda # CPU only docker run -it -p 8080:8080 \ -v $HOME /.tabby:/data \ tabbyml/tabby serve --model StarCoder-1B --device cpu # Or install directly curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TabbyML/tabby/main/install.sh | bash tabby serve --mode
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