GitHub Copilot
The most widely deployed AI pair programmer.
Inline completions, chat and a cloud coding agent that works on GitHub issues, with a choice of models from several labs.
- Vendor
- GitHub (Microsoft)
- Category
- Coding assistants
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, GitHub.com, CLI
- Launched
- 2021
- Website
- github.com/features/copilot
Features
- Inline completions
- Copilot coding agent
- Code review
- Multi-model choice
Best for
- Coding
- Enterprise
Works with
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 — Anthropic. Near-flagship intelligence at a mid-tier price; the everyday workhorse for builders.
- GPT-6.1 Sol — OpenAI. Mid-tier GPT-6 model with excellent cost per task for agentic coding.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash — Google. Google’s most intelligent Flash model — fully multimodal, fast and affordable.
More coding assistants
- Claude Code — Anthropic. Agentic coding in your terminal, IDE and browser.
- Cursor — Anysphere. The AI-native code editor.
- Codex — OpenAI. OpenAI’s cloud and CLI coding agent.
- Cline — Cline. Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code.
- Windsurf — Cognition. Agentic IDE with the Cascade agent.
- Lovable — Lovable. Build apps by chatting with AI.
- v0 — Vercel. Generate full-stack web apps from prompts.
- Gemini CLI — Google. Open-source terminal coding agent powered by Gemini.