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GitHub Copilot pricing, features, company info, and alternatives

A factual product page for GitHub Copilot covering where it fits, what it includes, and how the plans differ.

Last updated April 2026 ยท Pricing and features verified against official documentation

Categories Coding & Development
Starting price $10/month
Company GitHub
Verified Apr 19, 2026

Pricing

Current public pricing tiers on file for GitHub Copilot, last verified Apr 19, 2026.

Free

$0 / month

Pro

$10 / month

Pro+

$39 / month

Business

Contact sales

Enterprise

Contact sales

What You Can Do With It

The main capabilities that shape how people use GitHub Copilot today.

Inline code completions and conversational coding help in IDEs and GitHub.com.

Copilot coding agent and chat for delegated coding work.

Model choice across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI models.

Premium requests and team controls on paid plans.

Best For

Who GitHub Copilot is most clearly built for.

Developers who want AI inside the editor and GitHub workflow.

Teams standardizing code review and coding assistance around GitHub.

Engineers who need chat and agent features alongside completions.

Model Notes

Current model information surfaced publicly for GitHub Copilot.

Latest model

GPT-5 mini and other frontier models in Copilot Chat and coding agent workflows.

Model

GPT-5 mini

Model

GPT-4.1

Model

Claude Haiku 4.5

Model

Claude Opus 4.1

Model

Gemini 3 Pro

Platforms

Where you can use GitHub Copilot today.

GitHub.com

VS Code

Visual Studio

JetBrains IDEs

Neovim

Xcode

Integrations

Notable connected tools and ecosystem hooks for GitHub Copilot.

GitHub

VS Code

Visual Studio

JetBrains

Neovim

MCP servers

Privacy Notes

Publicly stated data-handling notes that matter when evaluating GitHub Copilot.

GitHub says included Copilot models for paid plans do not consume premium requests in the same way and use enterprise data commitments for supported hosted models.

Compliance

Public compliance or enterprise-governance signals we found for GitHub Copilot.

Enterprise controls available on business plans

Access

How to integrate or build around GitHub Copilot.

Public API

No

Alternatives

Other tools worth considering alongside GitHub Copilot.

Cursor

AI-native editor for autocomplete, code understanding, and agentic software work.

Claude

AI assistant focused on long-context reasoning, writing quality, and agentic work.

ChatGPT

General-purpose AI assistant for writing, coding, research, and agentic tasks.

Product Snapshot

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant built into GitHub, IDEs, and coding workflows. It is aimed at developers who want AI inside the editor and GitHub workflow.

What You Can Do With It

Why It Stands Out

It is built for developers who want AI inside the editor and GitHub workflow.

Tradeoffs To Know

Changes to this tool page

  1. April 2026 Replaced the generic pricing caveat with a note that Copilot Free is capped at 50 premium requests per month, while Pro and Pro+ raise that allowance.
  2. April 2026 Removed a generic pricing caveat that was not specific enough to this tool after a catalog review.
  3. April 2026 Removed a generic desktop-workflow tradeoff that was not specific enough to this tool after a catalog review.
Sources
  1. docs.github.com/copilot/get-started/plans-for-github-copilot
  2. github.com/features/copilot
  3. github.com/github
  4. github.com/about
  5. docs.github.com/copilot/reference/ai-models/model-hosting
  6. docs.github.com/copilot/concepts/billing/copilot-requests
  7. docs.github.com/copilot/reference/ai-models