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GitHub Copilot

AI coding help that works inside your editor and GitHub

GitHub Copilot helps you write, review, and adapt code directly in GitHub, your IDE, and the terminal. It supports everything from inline suggestions to agentic coding workflows with broader model choices and enterprise controls.

iOS
Code Execution
B2B
CLI
IDE Extension
MCP Support
Copilot (Human-in-Loop)
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What It Is

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant for developers and engineering teams. It sits inside GitHub, popular IDEs, and terminal workflows to help with code completion, explanations, edits, code review, and agent-driven coding tasks.

It is positioned as a broader developer workflow tool rather than a simple autocomplete add-on. According to GitHub, you can start for free and use it across GitHub, VS Code, Visual Studio, Xcode, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Eclipse, Raycast, SQL Server Management Studio, and Zed. It also connects with custom MCP servers and supports agent workflows in GitHub and the CLI.

What to Know

Copilot is meaningfully agentic for a coding tool: GitHub says you can assign issues to coding agents that write code, create pull requests, and respond to feedback in the background. That said, it still has guardrails and is best understood as a coding collaborator rather than a fully hands-off software engineer.

The content also suggests model flexibility: GitHub says Copilot can use leading LLMs optimized for speed, accuracy, or cost, including models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. Enterprise controls are mentioned, including audit logs and managed MCP access. Pricing is public, but details such as exact limits by plan and how premium requests are metered may require checking the plan pages. It is not a fit if you want a non-coding general assistant or a fully self-hosted product.

Key Features
Inline code completions
Code explanations and edits in the editor
Agent mode for proposing edits and validating files
Coding agents that can write code and create pull requests
Code review assistance
Use Cases
Generating and refining code while staying inside VS Code or another supported IDE
Assigning GitHub issues to a coding agent to draft implementation work and open a pull request
Using Copilot CLI to plan and execute terminal workflows with GitHub context
Agenticness: Domain Specialist 🎯

Handles domain-specific workflows independently with dynamic replanning.

High evidence
Last evaluated: Mar 27, 2026

Dimension Breakdown

Action Capability
Autonomy
Adaptation
State & Memory
Safety

Categories

Pricing
  • Free: $0/month; includes 50 agent mode or chat requests per month, 2,000 completions per month, access to Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 mini, and Copilot CLI.
  • Pro ($10/user/month): Includes Free plus Copilot coding agent, Copilot code review, Claude and Codex on GitHub and VS Code, 300 premium requests, unlimited agent mode and chats with GPT-5 mini, unlimited inline suggestions, and access to models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and more.
  • Pro+ ($39/user/month): Includes Pro plus access to all models, 5× as many premium requests as Pro, and GitHub Spark.
  • Enterprise: Enterprise controls are referenced, but pricing is not publicly available in the provided content.
Details
AddedJanuary 16, 2026
RefreshedMarch 28, 2026
Quick Facts
DeploymentCloud-hosted
AutonomyCopilot (human-in-loop)
Model supportMulti-model
Open sourceNo
MCP supportYes
Team supportEnterprise
Pricing modelFreemium
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