Open-source alternative  ·  AI / Copilot

Replace GitHub Copilot with Continue.dev + Tabby.

Open source AI coding assistant. Continue.dev is the VS Code/JetBrains plugin, Tabby is the self-hosted model server. Code completion, inline chat, codebase Q&A. No per-seat licensing.

You'd keep~R19 896 to ~R77 593/year

Current licence  ·  AI / Copilot

GitHub Copilot

~R19 896 – ~R77 593/yr

10-user estimate

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Continue.dev + Tabby

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R77 593/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. GitHub Copilot's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Copilot Pro

R19 920/yr

R166/user/month

With Continue.dev + Tabby

Keep R19 920/yr

Copilot Business

R37 800/yr

R315/user/month

With Continue.dev + Tabby

Keep R37 800/yr

Copilot Enterprise

R77 640/yr

R647/user/month

With Continue.dev + Tabby

Keep R77 640/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

GitHub Copilot grows around 10% per year on average. Continue.dev + Tabby hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR35kR69kR104kR138kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R126kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.53M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

GitHub Copilot → Continue.dev + Tabby, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.