ai-coding
GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer — the original AI coding assistant from GitHub/Microsoft
OG AI coding assistant. Free tier with Haiku 4.5 + GPT-5-mini. Pro $10/mo adds unlimited chats + agent mode. Deep VS Code + JetBrains + Xcode + Neovim integration.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 50 agent/chat requests + 2,000 completions/month. Haiku 4.5 + GPT-5-mini. Copilot CLI included. |
| Pro | $10/mo | $10/user/mo. Unlimited agent + chat with GPT-5-mini, 300 premium requests, unlimited inline completions, Claude + Codex. |
| Pro+ | $39/mo | $39/user/mo. 1,500 premium requests, Claude Opus 4.6, all models, GitHub Spark preview, third-party coding agent delegation. |
| Business | Custom | $19/user/mo (contact sales). Everything in Pro + organization license, audit logs, org policies, SSO. |
| Enterprise | Custom | $39/user/mo. IP indemnification, organization-wide knowledge bases, pull-request agents, fine-grained controls. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | agent mode access | Free tier 50 req/mo; Pro+ unlimited with premium reqs | Agent mode tiers |
| — | editor support | VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Neovim, Vim, Eclipse, Azure Data Studio | Supported editors |
| — | ip indemnification | Business + Enterprise only | IP protection |
| — | languages support | 40+ languages (Python, JS, TS, Go, Rust, Java, C#, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, etc.) | Language support |
| — | models available | Haiku 4.5, GPT-5 mini, GPT-5, GPT-5-Codex, Claude 4.x (Sonnet, Opus 4.6-4.7), Gemini 2.5 Pro | Model access |
| — | owner | GitHub (Microsoft subsidiary) | Owner |
| — | public code filter | Optional filter to block suggestions matching public code | Duplication filter |
Features
- Agent Mode — Multi-step autonomous edits with tool use. In VS Code. · docs
- AI Commit Messages — Auto-generate commit messages from diffs.
- Business Policies — Admin controls: disable chat, public code filter, audit logs.
- Chat with Repos / Docs — @github mentions to reference repos, wikis, docs.
- Copilot Chat — Sidebar chat inside editor with file context + /commands. · docs
- Copilot Code Review — AI reviewer on pull requests. Suggests changes inline.
- Copilot Coding Agent — Background agent that implements issues + opens PRs.
- Copilot in CLI — GitHub CLI + `gh copilot suggest` / `explain`. · docs
- GitHub Spark (Pro+) — No-code-style app builder inside Copilot.
- Inline Completion — Ghost-text suggestions as you type. Tab to accept.
- Knowledge Bases (Enterprise) — Index docs/repos as context for chat.
- PR Summaries + Q&A — AI-generated PR descriptions + Q&A on changes.
- Slash Commands — /explain, /fix, /tests, /docs, /simplify, /review.
- Third-Party Agent Delegation (Pro+) — Delegate tasks to Devin, Jules, Claude Code agents.
- Voice Chat (preview) — Talk to Copilot hands-free.
- Workspace (Preview) — Full-repo task planning + execution.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| copilot-chat | Copilot Chat (Web) | other | — |
| rest-api | Copilot REST API | rest | v3 |
| copilot-cli | GitHub Copilot CLI | cli | 1.x |
| jetbrains-plugin | JetBrains Plugin | other | — |
| neovim-plugin | Neovim Plugin | other | — |
| vscode-ext | VS Code Extension | other | — |
| xcode-ext | Xcode Extension | other | — |
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