GitHub Copilot
Completions, chat, and a coding agent inside GitHub and your IDE.
GitHub Copilot is GitHub's coding assistant. It offers inline suggestions, chat, agent mode, a CLI, and cloud tasks that can open pull requests. It runs in editors such as VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode, and Neovim, and on github.com.
Why this rank
If the work already lives on GitHub, Copilot is the pick that does not ask you to change editors. Pro is the cheapest paid seat in this ranking.
Best for
Teams that want AI inside GitHub and the IDE they already use.
Pricing
Free, Pro $10 per user/month, Pro+ $39, Max $100. Free includes limited chat and agent usage and 2,000 inline suggestions a month. Pro includes $15 of GitHub AI Credits a month and unlimited inline suggestions. Assigning work that opens a pull request starts on Pro.
Pricing checked November 7, 2026. Confirm it on the official site.
Before you commit
- Premium models, including Claude Opus, start on Pro+ rather than Pro.
- Delegating tasks to third-party agents such as Claude and Codex is not on the Free or Pro plan.
Also look at
- Cursor — AI-native editor with an agent in the same window.
- Claude Code — Anthropic's coding agent in the terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser.
- Cline — Open-source coding agent that asks before it acts.