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GitHub Copilot
Released Jun 21, 2022
GitHub's AI coding assistant, with agent mode in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode, the Copilot CLI and a cloud agent that opens pull requests.
- Interface
- IDE, CLI, WEB
- Pricing
- Subscription
- Models
- 0 listed models
- Best Terminal-Bench
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- Open source
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Agent mode and Copilot CLI on every plan, including Free
- Models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Moonshot and Microsoft
- Cloud agent turns assigned issues into pull requests (Pro and up)
Weaknesses
- Usage metered in AI credits; cost varies by model
- Delegating to third-party agents (Claude, Codex) needs Pro+ or Max
releaseDate is Copilot's general availability (2022-06-21); Copilot CLI entered public preview Sept 2025 and went GA 2026-02-25 per GitHub's changelog. supportedModels left [] because the plans page names model families (Claude Haiku/Sonnet/Opus, GPT-5/6, Gemini Flash, Grok, Kimi, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash) without exact versions. GitHub is a Microsoft subsidiary; not a frontier lab under the rule. copilot-cli repo licence is not an OSI licence (GitHub reports NOASSERTION).