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GitHub Copilot

Developer tool

by Microsoft

Coding assistant and agent inside the editor, the CLI and GitHub itself.

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Named free plan alongside published per-month paid tiers.

What it does

• Code generation
• Agentic coding
• Code review

How it compares

• Claude Code

  Both AI coding tools measured at work by JetBrains' 2026 survey; Claude Code is now the most widely adopted, used twice as often as GitHub Copilot, the market's former long-standing leader.

  Claude Code has continued to grow at an unprecedented pace, becoming by far the most widely adopted AI coding tool at work. It is used twice as often as GitHub Copilot, a former long-standing leader of the market that brought AI-assisted coding into the spotlight in 2023.

  Research report · 25 Aug 2026
• Cursor

  Both AI coding tools in JetBrains' 2026 workplace survey, where Copilot is described as the market's former long-standing leader and Cursor as sharing second place in adoption at work.

  We are now ready to share how AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, JetBrains AI Assistant, Junie, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, and Google Antigravity have evolved over the past two years in terms of awareness, adoption, and satisfaction.

  Research report · 25 Aug 2026
• Codex

  Both AI coding tools in JetBrains' 2026 workplace survey — GitHub Copilot the market's former long-standing leader, Codex OpenAI's own entry chasing the same developers.

  We are now ready to share how AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, JetBrains AI Assistant, Junie, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, and Google Antigravity have evolved over the past two years in terms of awareness, adoption, and satisfaction.

  Research report · 25 Aug 2026
• Amazon Q Developer

  Third-party metrics reflect as much; even with a free tier, CodeWhisperer struggled to match the momentum of chief rival GitHub Copilot, which has over 1.8 million paying individual users and tens of thousands of corporate customers.

  News reporting · 19 Sep 2026
• Gemini Code Assist

  Even more so than the Duet AI version, Code Assist is also a direct competitor to GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise and not so much the basic version of Copilot.

  News reporting · 20 Sep 2026
• poolside

  Artificial intelligence coding startup Poolside Inc., a rival to GitHub Inc.'s Copilot, said today it has closed on a bumper $500 million Series B raise.

  News reporting · 19 Sep 2026

Sources

Pricing

Pricing page · 2 Sep 2026

Verified 2026-09-02: URL 200; tier prices read off the live page.

Sold within

Pricing page · 30 Sep 2026

Read with pagetext 2026-09-30. Own self-serve plan ladder: "Free" "$0", "Pro" "$10 per month", "Pro+" "$39 per month", "Max" "$100 per month", each with "Get started". FAQ: "GitHub Copilot Free is a new free pricing tier with limited functionality for individual developers."

Interfaces

Official documentation · 28 Sep 2026

Names VS Code, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, JetBrains IDEs (ide-extension); GitHub CLI (cli); natively integrated into GitHub.com (web); GitHub Copilot in GitHub Mobile (mobile-app); a downloadable macOS app (desktop-app).

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