GitHub Copilot is the world's most widely adopted AI developer tool, used by millions of individual developers and tens of thousands of business customers. It transforms the developer experience by delivering contextualized AI assistance across the entire software development lifecycle, from inline code suggestions and chat in the IDE to cloud agents, command-line workflows, and code review on GitHub.com. Developers using GitHub Copilot report up to 55% higher productivity at writing code and up to 75% higher job satisfaction.
Key Capabilities
- Multi-Model Support: Choose from leading LLMs optimized for speed, accuracy, or cost, including Haiku 4.5, GPT-5 mini, Claude, and Opus. Users can select the best model for each task.
- Code Completion & Edits: Real-time inline code suggestions as you type, plus next-edit predictions. Completions and edits are unlimited on all paid plans.
- Agent Mode (IDE): Copilot in the editor can explain concepts, complete code, propose edits, and validate files autonomously within the IDE.
- Cloud Agents: Assign tasks to AI agents including Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, and OpenAI Codex. Agents can plan, explore, and execute work autonomously in the background directly from GitHub issues and pull requests.
- Copilot CLI: Use natural language to plan, build, and execute complex terminal workflows powered by your GitHub context.
- Code Review: AI-powered code review on GitHub.com that analyzes pull requests for quality, security issues, and best practices. Organizations can enable Copilot code review on all PRs, including those from users without a Copilot license.
Platform & IDE Integrations
GitHub Copilot integrates with the tools developers already use. It is available as an extension in Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Xcode, Eclipse, Zed, and Raycast. It also works directly on GitHub.com, in GitHub Mobile, and through GitHub CLI in the terminal. Support spans all programming languages found in public repositories, with the strongest support for well-represented languages like JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, and Go.
Enterprise & Team Features
- Copilot Spaces: Create shared knowledge bases that combine context from documentation and repositories, enabling consistent team-wide AI assistance.
- Enterprise Governance: Admins manage agent access with detailed audit logs, enforce policies from a single control plane, and configure MCP server allow lists to control which external tools developers can use.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) Support: Integrate with custom MCP servers to extend Copilot capabilities with external tools and data sources, with security controls for enterprise deployments.
Plans & Pricing
GitHub Copilot offers a Free tier with 2,000 completions per month and access to Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 mini. Paid plans include Pro ($10/user/month) with unlimited completions and access to cloud agents and third-party agents, Pro+ ($39/user/month) with premium models like Opus and audit logs, and Max ($100/user/month) for sustained high-volume agent workflows with priority access to new models. Business ($19/user/month) and Enterprise ($39/user/month) plans add organizational license management, policy controls, and IP indemnity. Verified students, teachers, and open-source maintainers have access to free plans.
