The AI pair programmer that suggests code as you type
GitHub Copilot is Microsoft's AI coding assistant built on OpenAI models and trained on billions of lines of public code. It integrates with VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, and the GitHub web editor to offer real-time code suggestions, function completions, test generation, and plain-English explanations of complex code. Copilot Chat lets you ask questions about your codebase in natural language.
★ ShareTool Review
GitHub Copilot review: Still solid, but Cursor has lapped it
A reliable autocomplete tool with excellent IDE breadth -- the right pick for non-VS Code users, but VS Code developers should look at Cursor first
ShareTool Verdict- 8/10
GitHub Copilot is the most enterprise-ready AI coding tool — the GitHub integration, IDE breadth, and enterprise controls are hard to beat. Individual developers often find Cursor more capable for day-to-day coding, but for teams already deep in the GitHub ecosystem, Copilot is the natural choice.
Community sentiment on GitHub Copilot has shifted significantly negative. While some developers find value in code suggestions, widespread concerns dominate: security vulnerabilities (leaked credentials), quality issues in generated code, rising costs, mandatory adoption policies, and Microsoft's aggressive AI-first direction alienating users toward alternatives.
“Researchers extracted 2,702 hard-coded credentials from Copilot suggestions. 200 were real, working secrets.”
Reddit“Auth flows leaked data because RLS was never set up. The API got hammered. Everything I never built started breaking.”
RedditFree
Free
2,000 completions/mo, 50 chats/mo
Pro
$10/mo
Unlimited completions and chat
Business
$19/mo
Per user/mo, org policy controls
Enterprise
$39/mo
Per user/mo, fine-tuned models
GitHub Copilot is free for verified students, teachers, and maintainers of popular open-source projects. For everyone else, it's $10/month individual or $19/month per seat for Business.
Copilot wins on ecosystem integration — GitHub PRs, Issues, Actions. Cursor wins on raw code intelligence, especially its codebase-wide context. Many developers use both.
VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, etc.), Neovim, Vim, and Xcode. The VS Code and JetBrains integrations are the most fully featured.
On the Enterprise plan, Copilot can be fine-tuned on your organization's private repositories to pick up internal patterns, naming conventions, and APIs.
“All employees are mandated to use it daily. If you don't, you are put on a PIP. There's a leaderboard for who is prompti”
Reddit“Many of us are just waiting for our credits to run out before exploring alternatives.”
RedditAnalyzed from community discussions on reddit.com · May 2026
GitHub includes an IP indemnification clause in the Business and Enterprise plans. Individual plans don't include this protection. Most generated code is safe, but review it as you would any code.
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