GitHub's AI pair programmer with code completion, chat, and agentic pull request support across IDEs and GitHub.com.
What is GitHub Copilot?#
GitHub Copilot is the widely deployed AI pair programmer from GitHub. It offers inline code completion, Copilot Chat, pull request review, commit message suggestions, and agentic workspaces that plan and execute code changes. Copilot runs in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, Neovim, Xcode, and directly on GitHub.com, with enterprise plans that include policy, audit, and privacy controls.
What can GitHub Copilot do?#
- 01
Inline completion
Whole-line and multi-line suggestions grounded in the surrounding code.
- 02
Copilot Chat
Codebase-aware chat that explains, edits, and tests code in the IDE.
- 03
Pull request review
Summaries, suggestions, and agentic PR workflows on GitHub.com.
- 04
Enterprise controls
Policy, audit logs, content exclusions, and SSO for regulated organizations.
Quick facts about GitHub Copilot#
- Pricing
- Free$0/moPro$10/moBusiness$19/moEnterprise$39/moas of Apr 18, 2026View official pricing
- Platforms
- macOS·Windows·Linux·Web·ide-plugin
GitHub Copilot Traffic Analysis
Alternatives to GitHub Copilot
Looking for a GitHub Copilot alternative? Compare these curated AI tools that offer similar features and use cases.
Codex
Codex is OpenAI cloud software engineering agent. It ships as an open-source terminal CLI, a cloud agent inside ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise, and a GitHub reviewer that writes code, runs tests, and opens pull requests.
Qodo
Qodo (formerly Codium) is an agentic AI code review and quality platform. It reviews code locally in the IDE, automatically comments on pull requests, and runs from a CLI, enforcing organization-specific coding standards across repositories.
Zed
Zed is a fast, collaborative code editor built in Rust by the team behind Atom. It integrates AI agents, inline assistants, edit prediction with an open-weight model, and native debugger and Git tooling.