GitHub Copilot
Accelerate developer productivity with GitHub Copilot, the most widely adopted AI-developer tool available for any platform.
OVERVIEW
Automate the mundane to focus on what matters
- Delegate open issues to GitHub Copilot and let your coding agent write, run, and test code in the background.
- Ideate, plan, evaluate, code, test, review, and modernize with new agents that expand the capabilities of Copilot beyond code assistance.
- Give more tasks to Copilot while staying in control and iterating through pull request reviews—just like you would with any other developer.
- Experience seamless, AI-powered end-to-end development and deployment by using GitHub and Azure at each step of the DevOps lifecycle.
FEATURES
Elevate developer workflows with GitHub Copilot
Coding agent
Treat Copilot like an AI-powered peer programmer. Assign complex, multi-step tasks and get completed pull requests in return. Then, iterate through comments like usual.
Agent mode
Supercharge the AI-assisted coding experience. Chat with Copilot to get code completions and summaries, or give it multi-step coding tasks to complete—all from your integrated development environment (IDE).
App modernization
Modernize Java and .NET apps faster than ever with specialized agents that can help assess, remediate, and update your apps.
MCP servers
Enable Copilot to code like an insider using Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to draw on data from your repositories and external resources.
GitHub Copilot extensions
Extend GitHub Copilot with ready-to-use extensions or build your own using our developer platform with APIs, documentation, and guides.
GitHub Copilot for Azure
Use the power of Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code to learn, deploy, troubleshoot, and operate in your Azure apps.
See why GitHub is named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Code Assistants1
GitHub was positioned highest in ability to execute and furthest in completeness of vision.
Security
Built-in security and compliance
Microsoft has committed to investing $20 billion in cybersecurity over five years.
We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries.
Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry.
Pricing
GitHub Copilot pricing
Whether you use GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, or another DevOps platform, there’s a GitHub Copilot plan for your organization.2
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Embrace AI-powered software development
Explore the new AI-powered features of GitHub Copilot, see pricing plans, and learn how the GitHub Copilot Trust Center helps answer your AI questions.
CUSTOMER STORIES
See how customers are innovating with GitHub Copilot
RESOURCES
Explore resources to get the most out of Copilot
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
- GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps developers write code faster with less effort. It provides contextual assistance, offering coding suggestions as developers type, which could be a line completion or a whole new block of code. This helps developers focus more on problem-solving, collaboration, and innovation. Integrated with leading editors and natively built into GitHub, it’s the most widely adopted AI developer tool, enhancing job satisfaction and productivity.
- Organizations can choose between GitHub Copilot Business and GitHub Copilot Enterprise. GitHub Copilot Business primarily features Copilot in the coding environment. It also includes Copilot in GitHub Mobile. GitHub Copilot Enterprise includes everything in GitHub Copilot Business and adds an additional layer of customization. Additionally, GitHub Copilot Enterprise has Copilot integrated into GitHub.com as a chat interface to enable developers to converse with Copilot about their codebase and action buttons throughout the platform.
- GitHub Copilot is trained on all languages that appear in public repositories. For each language, the quality of suggestions you receive may depend on the volume and diversity of training data for that language. GitHub Copilot is available as an extension in Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, the JetBrains suite of IDEs, and Azure Data Studio. GitHub Copilot is also supported in terminals through the GitHub command line interface (CLI).
- Developers can collaborate with GitHub Enterprise using a variety of tools that are built into the platform, including pull requests, GitHub Projects, and GitHub Discussions.
- GitHub Copilot Business can be used on any DevOps platform, including Azure DevOps. However, many of the newest agentic capabilities —like coding agent —require GitHub repositories. Contact Sales to learn more.
- GitHub Copilot is powered by generative AI models developed by GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft. It has been trained on natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub.
- GitHub Copilot processes personal data based on how Copilot is accessed and used, whether via GitHub.com, the GitHub mobile app, extensions, or one of various IDE extensions, or through features like suggestions for the CLI, IDE code completions, or personalized chat on GitHub.com. The types of personal data processed may include user engagement data, prompts, suggestions, and feedback data.
- No. GitHub does not use either Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise data to train its models.
- [1]
Gartner, Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Code Assistants, Arun Batchu, Philip Walsh, Matt Brasier, Haritha Khandabattu, 19 August 2024.
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- [2]GitHub Copilot Business is available for organizations on GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise plans. GitHub Copilot Enterprise is available for organizations on a GitHub Enterprise plan. Contact Sales to learn more.
