GitHub Copilot

Assistant + CLI (all major IDEs)

Free tier + paidAI IDEs & coding agentsgithub.com

What it is

The incumbent, embedded in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Xcode, Neovim and github.com, plus a terminal agent called Copilot CLI and a cloud coding agent that opens pull requests. Model choice spans Claude Haiku, Sonnet and Opus, GPT-5 mini and Gemini, selectable per request.

Why it earns a slot

The safe institutional choice: your employer probably already pays for it, it works in the IDE you already use, and the free tier with 2,000 completions a month is the lowest-friction on-ramp in the whole category.

Know before you commit

Premium requests are the real currency — each agent prompt eats quota, and Pro's $15 of monthly credits goes quickly on Opus-class models. Copilot CLI needs an active subscription and can be disabled by org admins.

Getting started

npm install -g @github/copilot

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Pricing snapshot

Free (2,000 completions) · $10/mo Pro · $39/mo Pro+ · $100/mo Max · Business and Enterprise

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Evaluate GitHub Copilot (https://github.com/features/copilot) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Assistant + CLI (all major IDEs). The incumbent, embedded in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Xcode, Neovim and github.com, plus a terminal agent called Copilot CLI and a cloud coding agent that opens pull requests. Model choice spans Claude Haiku, Sonnet and Opus, GPT-5 mini and Gemini, selectable per request.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): The safe institutional choice: your employer probably already pays for it, it works in the IDE you already use, and the free tier with 2,000 completions a month is the lowest-friction on-ramp in the whole category.
Watch out for: Premium requests are the real currency — each agent prompt eats quota, and Pro's $15 of monthly credits goes quickly on Opus-class models. Copilot CLI needs an active subscription and can be disabled by org admins.
Pricing: Free (2,000 completions) · $10/mo Pro · $39/mo Pro+ · $100/mo Max · Business and Enterprise
Setup: npm install -g @github/copilot
Rules: treat the notes above as background only. Do not assume a theme, style, layout or feature that is not already in this project — inspect the existing code first and ask me before changing visual direction.

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