App subscriptionPrimary
Copilot individual plans
From $10/mo
Individuals can subscribe to Pro, Pro+, or Max for 1,500, 7,000, or 20,000 total monthly GitHub AI Credits.
AI Coding Assistants
GitHub Copilot
GitHub-native AI coding assistant for chat, code review, and multi-model workflows.
GitHub Copilot: GitHub-native AI coding assistant for chat, code review, and multi-model workflows. Pricing: From $10/mo + usage. Best for Developers who want AI assistance inside GitHub and mainstream IDEs and Teams already standardized on GitHub pull requests and reviews.
Copilot individual plansPrimaryFrom $10/moCopilot BusinessFrom $19/seat/moCopilot EnterpriseFrom $39/seat/mo
Free plan available
30-day trial
Overview
Bottom line
GitHub Copilot is GitHub's AI coding assistant for developers working across GitHub, major IDEs, the command line, pull requests, and agent-assisted tasks. It is best for teams that already manage code and review workflows in GitHub and want AI help where issues, repositories, branches, and pull requests already live.
Its strongest fit is broad coding adoption with familiar tooling: completions, chat, code review support, and guided work inside the developer workflow. The caveat is that Copilot is not only an autocomplete product anymore. Advanced model use, agents, enterprise controls, and platform-specific features can introduce limits, governance questions, or usage boundaries that a small team may not notice at first.
Use Copilot when GitHub-native workflow fit matters more than building a custom AI coding stack. Keep personal use, business administration, enterprise governance, and API-style automation as separate decisions.
Pricing
Pricing snapshot
Pricing routes
App subscriptions, API usage, team workspaces, and enterprise contracts can follow different billing paths. See the pricing guide for current plan and meter details.
Team workspace
Copilot Business
From $19/seat/mo
Organizations buy $19 granted seats with 1,900 credits per user in a shared pool; current self-serve availability must be checked.
Enterprise sales
Copilot Enterprise
From $39/seat/mo
Enterprise seats cost $39 per granted seat and contribute 3,900 credits per user to a shared pool with enterprise controls.
Copilot Free
$0/mo + usage
Usage: Monthly GitHub AI Credits allowance; 2,000 completions/mo
- Copilot Chat — Included
- Copilot CLI — Included
- Code review — Not included
- Coding agent — Not included
- Policy controls — Not included
Copilot Student
$0/mo + usage
Usage: Monthly GitHub AI Credits allowance; unlimited completions
- Copilot Chat — Included
- Copilot CLI — Included
- Code review — Included
- Coding agent — Included
- Policy controls — Not included
Copilot Pro
$10/mo + usage
Usage: 1,500 total AI credits/mo (1,000 base + 500 flex); unlimited completions
- Copilot Chat — Included
- Copilot CLI — Included
- Code review — Included
- Coding agent — Included
- Policy controls — Not included
Copilot Business
$19/mo + usage
Usage: 1,900 AI credits/user/mo in a shared billing-entity pool
- Copilot Chat — Included
- Copilot CLI — Included
- Code review — Included
- Coding agent — Included
- Policy controls — Included
Copilot Enterprise
$39/mo + usage
Usage: 3,900 AI credits/user/mo in a shared billing-entity pool
- Copilot Chat — Included
- Copilot CLI — Included
- Code review — Included
- Coding agent — Included
- Policy controls — Included
Copilot Pro+
$39/mo + usage
Usage: 7,000 total AI credits/mo (3,900 base + 3,100 flex); unlimited completions
- Copilot Chat — Included
- Copilot CLI — Included
- Code review — Included
- Coding agent — Included
- Policy controls — Not included
Copilot Max
$100/mo + usage
Usage: 20,000 total AI credits/mo (10,000 base + 10,000 flex); unlimited completions
- Copilot Chat — Included
- Copilot CLI — Included
- Code review — Included
- Coding agent — Included
- Policy controls — Not included
Capabilities
Input types
text, code, image
Output types
text, code
Supported platforms
Web, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux
Delivery modes
Web app, Mobile app, CLI, IDE extension
Company context
Company
GitHub
Founded
2008
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Category
AI Coding Assistants
Evidence boundary
Official sources
Editorial guidance grounded in official product sources.
FAQ
Common questions
Is GitHub Copilot free?
Yes. Copilot Free gives individual developers limited usage, while Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise add monthly GitHub AI Credits allowances, more models, and controls.
Where can you use GitHub Copilot?
GitHub Copilot works on GitHub.com, in GitHub Mobile, across major IDEs such as VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse, in Vim and Neovim, and in the CLI.
Can organizations manage GitHub Copilot centrally?
Yes. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise add centralized seat management, policy controls, and organization-level administration.
Does GitHub Copilot support multiple models and overage billing?
Yes. Copilot supports multiple models, and since June 1, 2026 paid plans draw model usage from monthly GitHub AI Credits; additional usage costs $0.01 per credit once the included allowance is used.
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- From $10/mo + usage
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- Web, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux
- Access
- Web app, Mobile app, CLI, IDE extension
- Best for
- Developers who want AI assistance inside GitHub and mainstream IDEs and Teams already standardized on GitHub pull requests and reviews and Engineers who want chat, CLI help, code review, and agent features in one subscription and Students looking for premium coding assistance at no cost
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