Today I got GitHub’s email, “GitHub Copilot: What’s in your free plan 🤖”. Copilot now has a free tier open to everyone, including two large models: OpenAI GPT-4o and Anthropic.
The email reads: “You now have access to GitHub Copilot in VS Code and github.com for free as part of your GitHub user account—and that includes support for models from OpenAI and Anthropic.”
- GitHub blog post: https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-in-vscode-free/
- Details: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/about-github-copilot/subscription-plans-for-github-copilot
- Official site: https://github.com/features/copilot
- Start using it: https://github.com/copilot
GitHub Copilot Free
GitHub Copilot currently comes in four tiers: Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise. Pro is $10/month, Business $19/user/month, Enterprise $39/user/month. Let’s look at the free tier only — tier comparison: https://github.com/features/copilot/plans
- 2,000 intelligent code completions per month: context-aware suggestions drawn from your GitHub projects and VS Code workspace.
- 50 Copilot Chat messages per month: ask Copilot to explain code, refactor something, or debug an issue.
- AI model choice: pick between Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI GPT-4o.
- Multi-file changes with Copilot Edits: handle changes across multiple files.
- Copilot Extensions ecosystem: access third-party agents built for tasks like querying Stack Overflow or searching the web with Perplexity.
- Build where you like: supported in VS Code and across GitHub.
Just last week, the number of developers on GitHub crossed the 150 million mark.