GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is the world’s most widely adopted AI pair programmer, built by GitHub and Microsoft to autocomplete code, chat about your codebase, and act as an autonomous coding agent across your IDE, the terminal, and GitHub itself.

Overview

Copilot works inside VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Xcode, and more. It suggests whole lines and functions as you type, answers questions in chat with context from your repository, and on paid plans runs in agent mode: planning multi-step changes, editing multiple files, running commands, and even opening pull requests through the Copilot cloud agent. You can choose between leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, while organizations get policy controls, usage analytics, and IP indemnity on business tiers.

Key Features

• Inline code completions and next-edit suggestions informed by your coding context
• Copilot Chat for code explanations, debugging help, and documentation answers
• Agent mode that plans and executes multi-file changes inside the editor
• Copilot cloud agent that researches, plans, and delivers work as pull requests
• AI code review assistance on pull requests and file diffs
• Copilot CLI for agentic coding workflows in the terminal
• Enterprise controls: content exclusions, policy management, audit logs, and IP indemnity

Copilot is trained on all languages that appear in public repositories and keeps expanding beyond the editor: it is natively integrated into GitHub.com and GitHub Mobile, can modernize legacy Java and .NET applications, and can delegate work to third-party coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI in preview.

💳 Pricing

The Free plan includes 2,000 completions and 50 chat and agent requests per month. For individuals, Pro costs $10/month, Pro+ $39/month, and Max $100/month for heavy agent usage. For organizations, Business is $19 per user/month and Enterprise is $39 per user/month. Verified students, teachers, and popular open-source maintainers can use Pro at no cost.

Who Is It For

GitHub Copilot suits individual developers who want the most proven AI assistant, teams already living on GitHub who want agents that open real pull requests, and enterprises that need governance, analytics, and indemnity around AI-generated code.