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GitHub Copilot pricing
GitHub Copilot publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- $10/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
GitHub Copilot plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | $10/month | 3 | Entry tier |
| Business | $19/month | 3 | +$9/month, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Individual
$10/monthThe entry tier. It covers code completions, chat in ide, cli assistance.
Business
$19/monthOver Individual, this tier adds:
- Organization management
- Policy controls
- Audit logs
What the product covers
The full GitHub Copilot feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Code completion
- Code generation
- Chat interface
- Multi-language support
Integrations
- VS Code
- JetBrains IDEs
- Neovim
- Visual Studio
Platform
- Ide-extension support
- Cli support
People bring GitHub Copilot in for ai tools management, workflow automation, reporting. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to GitHub Copilot are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Development Tools
Too few development tools tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot (this page) | $10/month | subscription | - | |
| Deno | Free | freemium | - | vs GitHub Copilot |
| Buildkite | Free | freemium | - | vs GitHub Copilot |
| Argo CD | Free | open-source | - | vs GitHub Copilot |
| Bitbucket | Free, then $3.65/month | - | - | vs GitHub Copilot |
| Claude Code | Free | freemium | - | vs GitHub Copilot |
| Ansible | Free | open-source | - | vs GitHub Copilot |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the GitHub Copilot badges page.
Before you pay for GitHub Copilot
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between $10/month and $19/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare GitHub Copilot against the tools that do have one before committing.
GitHub Copilot runs on web, windows, macos, linux, and is published by GitHub of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the GitHub Copilot review, and the rest of the category is under best development tools tools.
GitHub Copilot pricing questions
- How much does GitHub Copilot cost?
- GitHub Copilot publishes 2 tiers, from $10/month for Individual up to $19/month for Business. The cheapest paid tier is $10/month.
- Does GitHub Copilot have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: GitHub Copilot is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Individual and Business on GitHub Copilot?
- Business costs $19/month against $10/month, and adds organization management, policy controls, audit logs.
- Is the Business plan on GitHub Copilot worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is organization management, policy controls, audit logs. It costs $19/month against $10/month for Individual. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which development tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 development tools tools listed alongside GitHub Copilot have a free tier: Deno, Buildkite, Argo CD, Bitbucket, Claude Code.
- What am I actually paying for with GitHub Copilot?
- The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for ai tools management, workflow automation, reporting.
- Does GitHub Copilot charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these GitHub Copilot prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare GitHub Copilot against before paying?
- The closest development tools tools in this directory are Deno, Buildkite, Argo CD, Bitbucket. Each has a side-by-side comparison with GitHub Copilot covering price, platforms and features.