Here's the blog post where we made the comparison: https://www.codeium.com/blog/code-assistant-comparison-copil...

As a tl;dr there is very little reason to pay for Tabnine. Copilot is far superior in the realm of paid products, and Codeium is comparable to Copilot.

Solid comparison and interesting read for sure.

What exactly is the business model though? It's always a red flag when "privacy respecting" and "free" are bundled together. I definitely _want_ to pay something for that type of service.

We answer this partially in the "How do you plan to make money?" question in our FAQ: https://www.codeium.com/faq

tl;dr potential pro plan for additional features (keep autocomplete free) and enterprise offering

Nice! I see it listed in the FAQ and that makes more sense.

I'll sign up and take it for a spin.

What are the plans for Codeium to be sustainable? I don't think how it will be free forever if it really competes with Copilot.

We actually worked out the math - we don't use any external APIs like OpenAI (use our own models) so those costs aren't prohibitive, and we have a bunch of experience as a team building scalable ML systems, so we have driven down the serving costs by a lot.