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GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer that suggests code completions and full functions in your IDE

Use Cases

  • Real-time code suggestions and completions
  • Generate functions from comments
  • Copilot Chat for code Q&A
  • Test and documentation generation

Strengths

  • +Industry standard for IDE AI completion
  • +Works across VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, etc.
  • +Copilot Chat provides conversational coding help
  • +Deep GitHub integration

Caveats

  • !Requires subscription
  • !Code suggestions may need review
  • !Less whole-project awareness than dedicated AI editors

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Details

Pricing

subscriptionIndividual, Business, and Enterprise plans

Platforms

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