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GitHub Copilot pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

GitHub Copilot (github.com) is a AI coding tool. Flat monthly per-user plans that include unlimited code completions plus a monthly allotment of AI credits ($0.01 each) for chat, agents and code review, with paid overage.. Free plan: Copilot Free: 2,000 completions and 50 chat requests per month, auto model selection only.

What GitHub Copilot costs

  • Solo: $10/mo (Copilot Pro $10/mo (monthly billing); includes $10 base + $5 flex AI credits)
  • Top plan: $100/mo (Copilot Max $100/mo; 10,000 base + 10,000 flex AI credits)
  • Team of 10: $190/mo (Copilot Business $19/seat/mo x 10 = $190; free GitHub organization plan qualifies at $0)

Plan compared: Copilot Pro. Monthly list price in USD on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12). Solo is the cheapest paid plan one developer can buy, Top is the most expensive individual tier, and Team of 10 is ten seats on the cheapest team plan with central billing and admin; pay-as-you-go model usage beyond what a plan includes is not counted.

What GitHub Copilot does

Core: Agentic coding tool, Inline code completion, VS Code and JetBrains extensions, Multi-lab model choice.

Important: Codebase indexing, AI-native code editor, Terminal agent (CLI), Background cloud agents, Web and mobile access, Slack and issue triggers, AI pull request review, MCP tool connections, Rules, commands and subagents, Plan and spec mode, Team admin and analytics, Privacy and compliance, Automated fixes, AI test generation.

Also has: Bring your own API key, Built-in browser testing, Design to code, Open source or self-hosted, Static code analysis (partly), IDE & pre-commit checks (partly), Multi-platform Git support (partly).

GitHub Copilot price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to GitHub Copilot

At 1 developer, GitHub Copilot costs $10/mo. 2 AI coding tools cost less:

  • Cursor: $8/mo (Plus ($8/mo, Grok models only)), covers 91% of GitHub Copilot; missing or partial: VS Code and JetBrains extensions (partly), Automated fixes (partly), Bring your own API key (partly), Open source or self-hosted
  • OpenAI Codex: $8/mo (ChatGPT Go), covers 74% of GitHub Copilot; missing or partial: Inline code completion, VS Code and JetBrains extensions (partly), Multi-lab model choice, Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly)

GitHub Copilot alternatives: 3 AI coding tools compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of GitHub Copilot

  • GitHub (Code hosting & CI): covers 73% of GitHub Copilot; missing or partial: Inline code completion, VS Code and JetBrains extensions, AI-native code editor (partly), Terminal agent (CLI) (partly), MCP tool connections (partly)
  • GitLab (Code hosting & CI): covers 69% of GitHub Copilot; missing or partial: Inline code completion (partly), Multi-lab model choice (partly), Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly), Terminal agent (CLI) (partly)
  • Claude (AI assistants): covers 53% of GitHub Copilot; missing or partial: Inline code completion, VS Code and JetBrains extensions, Multi-lab model choice, Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly)
  • Replit (AI app builders): covers 50% of GitHub Copilot; missing or partial: Inline code completion, VS Code and JetBrains extensions, Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly), Terminal agent (CLI)
  • v0 (AI app builders): covers 43% of GitHub Copilot; missing or partial: Inline code completion, VS Code and JetBrains extensions, Multi-lab model choice (partly), Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly)

Every change we logged

  • Jun 1, 2026 · Limits cut: Annual Pro and Pro+ subscribers kept premium-request pricing until renewal, but GitHub increased model multipliers for them from June 1, 2026, so the same allowance buys fewer premium-model requests.
  • Jun 1, 2026 · Repriced: All Copilot plans moved from premium requests to token-metered AI credits worth their plan price (Pro $10, Pro+ $39, Business $19, Enterprise $39); seat prices unchanged. The fallback to a cheaper model after the allowance ended, and code review now also consumes GitHub Actions minutes.
  • Jun 18, 2025 · Limits cut: GitHub started enforcing monthly premium-request allowances on Pro, Pro+, Business and Enterprise (Pro: 300/month), with extra requests billed at $0.04 each. Base models GPT-4.1/GPT-4o stayed unlimited.

Sources

Pricing page: github.com/features/copilot/plans. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from GitHub's plans page and Copilot docs (Oct 2026); only monthly prices are listed (no annual option shown). Max plan ($100) is new since the June 2026 credit switch; self-serve Business purchases were briefly paused in April 2026.