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AI Coding Assistants
GitHub Copilot
GitHub-native AI coding assistant for code completion, chat, reviews, and agentic development.
GitHub Copilot: GitHub-native AI coding assistant for code completion, chat, reviews, and agentic development.. Pricing: From $10/mo + usage. Best for Developers who want AI help inside GitHub and mainstream IDEs and Teams standardizing on GitHub workflows, pull requests, and policy controls.
Tool score: 8.8 / 10
From $10/mo + usage
Free plan available
API available
Overview
Bottom line
GitHub-native AI coding assistant for code completion, chat, reviews, and agentic development.
GitHub Copilot is GitHub's AI coding assistant for code completions, chat, code review, CLI workflows, and background agent tasks. GitHub says Copilot works across GitHub, popular IDEs, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, and the GitHub CLI, and it now supports model choice, MCP integrations, and a technical-preview Copilot SDK.
The product's biggest advantage is ecosystem fit. If your repos, pull requests, policies, and daily workflows already live on GitHub, Copilot feels less like an add-on and more like an AI layer across the developer stack. The tradeoff is that heavy users need to watch premium-request limits and overage costs, and the tool still requires human review for large or security-sensitive changes.
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How the tool scores
A standardized tool profile score across usability, pricing value, feature depth, and support quality.
Tool score
8.8
/ 10Value for money
8.5
How much practical capability the product delivers for the price.
Features
9.3
Breadth, polish, and depth across the core product surface.
Support
8.3
Docs, help channels, and how easily issues get resolved.
Capabilities
Input types
text, code, image
Output types
text, code
Platforms
web, ios, android, mac, windows, linux, api
APIMobile app
Company context
Company
GitHub, Inc.
Founded
2008
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, USA
Category
AI Coding Assistants
Pricing
Pricing snapshot
Free
$0/mo + usage
Usage: 50 premium requests + 2,000 completions/mo
- Select model access
- Copilot Chat in supported environments
- Monthly inline suggestion allowance
Pro
$10/mo + usage
Usage: 300 premium requests/mo
- Unlimited code completions
- Unlimited chat with included models
- Copilot CLI access
- Copilot cloud-agent workflows
Business
$19/mo + usage
Usage: 300 premium requests/user/mo
- Centralized management
- Policy controls
- Team rollout on GitHub
Enterprise
$39/mo + usage
Usage: 1,000 premium requests/user/mo
- Higher premium request allowance
- Advanced enterprise capabilities
- Enterprise-scale admin controls
Pro+
$39/mo + usage
Usage: 1,500 premium requests/mo
- Access to the widest model set
- Priority access to previews
- GitHub Spark access
FAQ
Common questions
Is GitHub Copilot free?
Yes. GitHub Copilot Free includes 2,000 code completions and 50 premium requests per month. GitHub also continues to offer Copilot Pro at no cost to verified students, teachers, and certain open source maintainers.
Which editors and platforms does GitHub Copilot support?
GitHub says Copilot works on GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, the GitHub CLI, and IDEs such as VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, Xcode, Azure Data Studio, Vim, and Neovim.
Does GitHub Copilot have a free trial?
Historically GitHub offered a one-time 30-day Copilot Pro trial, but as of April 13, 2026 GitHub has paused new Pro trials. Existing active trials continue, and GitHub says it plans to reopen trials after adding stronger protections.
Does GitHub use Copilot data to train models?
As of April 13, 2026, GitHub says Copilot Business and Enterprise data is not used to train its models. GitHub announced that interaction data from Free, Pro, and Pro+ will begin being used for training by default on April 24, 2026 unless users opt out.
Does GitHub Copilot have an API or SDK?
GitHub offers a Copilot SDK in technical preview, and GitHub Docs says it is available with all Copilot plans for building apps powered by Copilot.
Recent updates
Changelog snapshot
feature
April 8, 2026VS Code March releases added Autopilot for fully autonomous agent sessions, integrated browser debugging, image and video support in chat, and a new editor for managing chat customizations.
feature
February 25, 2026GitHub Copilot CLI became generally available for all Copilot subscribers, bringing terminal-native agent workflows, diff/review tools, memory, and MCP extensibility to the command line.
feature
December 18, 2025GitHub added Agent Skills so teams can teach Copilot repeatable workflows using instructions, scripts, and resources across the coding agent, CLI, and VS Code agent mode.
feature
September 24, 2025Copilot Spaces became generally available, giving users reusable shared context built from files, pull requests, issues, and repositories.
Tool snapshot
GitHub Copilot
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Pricing unit
- Hybrid
- Starting price
- From $10/mo + usage
- Best for
- Developers who want AI help inside GitHub and mainstream IDEs, Teams standardizing on GitHub workflows, pull requests, and policy controls, Engineers who want one subscription for autocomplete, chat, CLI, code review, and cloud agents, Students or individual developers who want a credible free entry point before paying
- Category
- AI Coding Assistants
Last verified April 13, 2026
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Review: GitHub Copilot Review: Features, Pricing, and VerdictGitHub Copilot remains one of the most complete AI coding assistants, combining strong autocomplete, GitHub-native workflows, broad IDE support, and fast-moving agent features. Premium-request limits and occasional context drift are the main tradeoffs.Pricing: GitHub Copilot Pricing: Free, Pro, Pro+, Business, and EnterpriseGitHub Copilot offers Free, Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans. Paid individual access starts at $10/month or $100/year, while team plans cost $19 or $39 per user monthly, plus optional premium-request overages.
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