Github Copilot
Free Trial, Freemium, Paid
GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that optimizes developer workflows and boosts productivity. It provides code completions, chat assistance in the IDE, code explanations, and answers to docs on GitHub, streamlining the coding process.
Key Features
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Chat interface: Copilot indexes and understands your code so you can get answers to questions, learn about new codebases or improve legacy code
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Automation: Get auto-complete suggestions
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Integrations: Available as extension for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, the JetBrains suite of IDEs, and Azure Data Studio
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Mobile app for iOS and Android
Main Programming Languages
C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, and TypeScript
Pricing Structure
Free version available: Yes
Limited free access to GitHub Copilot
Chat: Limited to 50 interactions per month
Code completion: Up to 2000 per month
Supported environments: IDE, github.com, GitHub Mobile, CLI, and Windows Terminal
Free trial of Copilot Pro
Copilot Pro: $10/user/month or free for verified students, teachers, and maintainers of popular open source projects
Chat: Unlimited messages and interactions, Context-aware coding support and explanations, Debugging and security remediation assistance
Code completion: Unlimited real time code suggestions, Comments to code
Smart actions: Inline chat and prompt suggestions, Slash commands and context variables, Commit message generation
Management and policies: Public code filter
Copilot Business: $19/user/month
Everything in “Pro”, plus:
Management and policies: User management, Data excluded from training by default, Enterprise-grade security, IP indemnity, Content exclusions, SAML SSO authentication, Usage metrics
Copilot Enterprise:$39/user/month
Everything in “Business”, plus:
Chat: Conversations tailored to your organization’s repositories, Answers based on your organization’s knowledge base, Access to knowledge from top open source repositories, Pull request diff analysis
Code completion: Fine-tuned models
Smart actions: Pull request description and summarization
Management and policies: Requires GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Use Performance & Case Suitability
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Natural language prompt should be in English for best service quality
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For individual developers, freelancers, students, and educators that want to code faster and happier
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For organizations ready to improve engineering velocity, code quality, and developer experience
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For companies looking to customize GitHub Copilot to their organization and infuse AI across the developer workflow
Customization & Flexibility
- Enterprise customers can build and deploy to GitHub-hosted cloud environments or manage and deploy GitHub Enterprise on own servers, including AWS, Azure or GC
Data Handling & Privacy
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Data Protection Framework (DPF)
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GitHub delivers, maintains, and updates the services as per the customer’s configuration and usage, to ensure personalized experiences and recommendations
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Compliance with the GDPR and similar legislation
Support & Documentation
- Support via online form and tickets
- GitHub Community
- Premium support offers 24/7 support for businesses
- Extensive documentation available