companion
The premium Open Source alternative to GitHub Copilot
🎯 Best for:Teams working on sensitive codebases that cannot use cloud-based AI assistants.
What is companion?
A VSCode extension that leverages local LLMs like Llama 3 and CodeQwen to provide context-aware code generation. It uses FastAPI and Ollama to ensure team insights remain private and portable across development environments.
Tech Stack
PythonAI, ML & Data
Why companion?
- • Local code processing
- • Team context integration
- • Supports multiple OSS LLMs
Limitations
- • Requires local GPU
- • Setup of Ollama backend
- • Inference latency
2/26/2026
Last Update
9
Forks
6
Issues
Apache-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on GitHub Copilot)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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