GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is an AI assistant from GitHub. It suggests code, answers questions about a codebase, reviews changes and works on tasks you assign it. It runs as a cloud service in editors and IDEs (VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Eclipse, Neovim and more), on github.com, in GitHub Mobile, in the terminal (Copilot CLI) and in the GitHub Copilot app for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Agent features, as GitHub names them: agent mode in the editor; Copilot cloud agent, which works on an issue or task in the background and can open a pull request; Copilot code review; and Copilot CLI, with plan and autopilot modes. You can also hand tasks to third-party agents such as Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex, and connect MCP servers.

Plans in USD: Free $0, Pro $10/month, Pro+ $39/month, Max $100/month, Business $19 per user/month, Enterprise $39 per user/month. Chat and agent use draws on monthly GitHub AI Credits (1 credit = $0.01). Code completions are unlimited on paid plans.

Made for

Individual developers, freelancers, students, educators and open source maintainers (Free, Pro, Pro+, Max), and organizations and enterprises that manage Copilot for their teams (Business, Enterprise).

Use cases

• Complete code as you type in the editor
• Ask questions about a repository or a file
• Assign an issue to Copilot and get a pull request
• Get AI reviews on pull requests
• Plan and run coding tasks from the terminal with Copilot CLI
• Run several agent sessions side by side in the GitHub Copilot app

An alternative to

• Cursor

  Works inside the editors you already use (VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode, Eclipse, Neovim) and on github.com.

• Claude Code

  A free plan and Pro at $10 a month, and you can hand tasks to Claude and OpenAI Codex agents inside GitHub.

• OpenAI Codex

  Built into github.com: assign an issue to the Copilot cloud agent and it opens a pull request.

Alternatives to GitHub Copilot 4

AI Agents

Claude Code

AI coding agent from Anthropic for the terminal, IDE, desktop and web

PaidWebMacWindowsLinuxAPI / CLI

Reads, edits and runs code on its own from the terminal, the desktop app or the web, with Anthropic's Claude models.

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AI Agents

Cline

Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal and desktop

Open sourceWebMacWindowsLinuxAPI / CLI

Open source (Apache 2.0); the extension is free and you bring your own API key or a local model.

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Developer Tools

Cursor

AI code editor and coding agent for desktop, terminal, web and iPhone

FreemiumWebiOSMacWindowsLinuxAPI / CLI

An editor built around agents: the Agents Window runs many side by side, with Cloud Agents, Automations and Bugbot.

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AI Agents

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI's coding agent for the terminal, IDE, desktop app and cloud

Open sourceWebiOSMacWindowsLinuxAPI / CLI

The Codex CLI is open source under Apache 2.0, and cloud tasks each get their own workspace and can open a pull request.

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