GitHub Copilot review

GitHub Copilot earns the top spot because it gives the most developers the most for the least money. The Free plan includes 2,000 completions a month, agent mode, the Copilot CLI and MCP support, which is enough to judge it on real work. Pro at $10 per user per month removes the completion cap and adds the cloud agent, which takes an issue and opens a pull request, plus code review on GitHub and in the editor. Pro+ at $39 adds premium models such as Opus and can hand tasks to third-party agents from Anthropic and OpenAI. Editor coverage is the widest we found: VS Code, Visual Studio, Xcode, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Eclipse and Zed. The catch is metering. Agent mode, code review, the cloud agent and the CLI all spend GitHub AI Credits, and Pro includes $15 of them a month, so teams running agents all day will want Pro+ or Max.

Who it is for

Developers and teams who want AI in the editor they already use and on github.com, at a low per-seat price.

Price

Free plan; Pro $10, Pro+ $39 and Max $100 per user per month.

$ 10 USD per user / month
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.

Key features

• Unlimited code completion and next edit suggestions on Pro
• Agent mode in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode
• Copilot in the cloud: assign an issue and it creates a pull request
• Pull request reviews on GitHub and file diff reviews in editors
• Copilot CLI and MCP server support on every plan, Free included

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Pro at $10 per user per month is the lowest full-featured price here
• Strength: Works in more editors than any rival, from Xcode to Neovim
• Strength: Pro+ can delegate tasks to the Claude and Codex agents
• Weakness: Free plan caps completions at 2,000 per month
• Weakness: Premium models such as Opus need Pro+ at $39 per month
• Weakness: Agent work draws from monthly AI credits that heavy users can exhaust

Key facts

• Free plan: Yes, 2,000 completions per month
• Paid tiers: Pro, Pro+, Max
• Pro monthly credits: $15 of GitHub AI Credits

Where it ranks

GitHub Copilot is No. 1 in our Best AI Coding Assistants verdict.