GitHub Copilot is the world's most widely adopted AI coding assistant, developed by GitHub and OpenAI, that provides intelligent code completion, chat assistance, multi-file editing, and automated code review directly within VS Code, JetBrains, and other major development environments. It understands the context of your entire repository to suggest contextually relevant completions, generates unit tests automatically, explains complex code, and can implement features from natural language descriptions. Over 1.8 million developers and 50,000 enterprises rely on GitHub Copilot to accelerate development velocity while maintaining code quality.
Key Features
Real-time code completions in every major IDE
Copilot Chat: ask questions about your codebase in natural language
Multi-file edits across your whole project
Autofix security vulnerabilities with one click
Supports 25+ programming languages
Pull Request summaries and code review assistance
Use Cases
Autocompleting boilerplate and repetitive code
Learning new programming languages and frameworks
Explaining and documenting existing code
Writing unit tests automatically
Fixing bugs and security issues
Pricing
Free for verified students and open-source maintainers. $10/mo for individuals. $19/user/mo for business.