GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer in your IDE
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About
GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that suggests code completions, entire functions, and chat-based assistance directly in your IDE. Powered by OpenAI and Anthropic models, it helps developers write code faster across dozens of languages and frameworks.
Best for: Developer teams seeking AI-powered code completion and chat inside their existing IDE.
Pricing
Free
- Monthly
- Free
- Annual /mo
- Free
- Billing
- flat
- Notes
- Limited completions; limited chat; access to select models · Free tier for individuals
Pro
- Monthly
- $10
- Annual /mo
- $10
- Billing
- per_user
- Notes
- Unlimited completions; premium model access; AI credits allowance · Individual plan
Pro+
- Monthly
- $39
- Annual /mo
- $39
- Billing
- per_user
- Notes
- Higher AI Credits; premium model access; Cloud agent · Individual plan
Business
- Monthly
- $19
- Annual /mo
- $19
- Billing
- per_user
- Notes
- $19 monthly AI Credits; org policy controls; audit logs · Org plan
Enterprise
- Monthly
- $39
- Annual /mo
- $39
- Billing
- per_user
- Notes
- $39 monthly AI Credits; SSO; enterprise security · Org plan; usage-based billing from June 2026
| Tier | Monthly | Annual /mo | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free | flat | Limited completions; limited chat; access to select models · Free tier for individuals |
| Pro | $10 | $10 | per_user | Unlimited completions; premium model access; AI credits allowance · Individual plan |
| Pro+ | $39 | $39 | per_user | Higher AI Credits; premium model access; Cloud agent · Individual plan |
| Business | $19 | $19 | per_user | $19 monthly AI Credits; org policy controls; audit logs · Org plan |
| Enterprise | $39 | $39 | per_user | $39 monthly AI Credits; SSO; enterprise security · Org plan; usage-based billing from June 2026 |
Startup offer
GitHub for Startups
$10,000 in GitHub platform credits, valid up to 12 months, applied to GitHub Enterprise plus Copilot. Eligibility: affiliated with a GitHub for Startups partner, raised up to Series B and new to GitHub Enterprise.
Included in hub programs
Key features
- Real-time code completion
- Copilot Chat in IDE
- pull request summaries
- multi-model support (GPT
- Claude
- Gemini)
- enterprise security and policy controls
Integrations
Trust & compliance
- Stage range
- MVP → Growth
- Founded
- 2021
- Status
- active
- SOC 2
- yes
- GDPR
- yes
- Data residency
- global
- External rating
- 4.5 on G2 (1800 reviews)
- Last verified
- Jun 2026
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Andrej Karpathy
Founder; AI educator
Karpathy used GitHub Copilot as his prior coding-assistant default before switching to Cursor + Sonnet 3.5. He still references it as the baseline for AI-assisted coding when discussing the broader evolution of pair-programming tools, and his framing was honest about Copilot being good enough until Cursor's agent loop pulled ahead.
Tobi Lütke
CEO & Founder
GitHub Copilot is part of the official set of AI coding tools Shopify provides every engineer, alongside Cursor and Claude Code. Bessemer's coverage of Shopify's engineering playbook names Copilot in the mix Tobi sponsors at the company level. He hasn't posted about Copilot personally the way he posts about Claude or Cursor, so this is a stack-level rather than personal-driver signal.
swyx (Shawn Wang)
Editor; Founder
swyx has covered GitHub Copilot's evolution from autocomplete to agent on Latent Space and discusses it as part of the AI engineering canon. He treats Copilot as the original AI-coding primitive that defined the category before Cursor and Claude Code took the frontier.