GitHub Copilot

Who it is for

For developers, individuals, and small teams. It runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, and the web. License: Proprietary. It is in the DevOps group.

What you pay

Free plan: Free is $0, with no credit card on the plans page. Inline suggestions are 2,000 a month. Chat and agent usage are limited. The model list is not included. The licenses page says Free is for individual use, not an organization or an enterprise. Pro is $10 a user a month and is where the plans page starts listing models. Hosted price: Free $0. Pro $10 a user a month. Pro+ $39. Max $100. Business $19 a user a month. The credit line on the plans table is separate: $15 a month on Pro, $70 on Pro+, and $200 on Max. Checked November 10, 2026. It does not run on a computer you control. Copilot is GitHub's service. The plans page does not offer a copy you run.

How to switch

• Compared with Sourcegraph Cody. Its price on file: The pricing page does not print a Cody price. The Enterprise plan Cody's docs say it runs on starts at $16K a year. Cody ends on January 31, 2027.

  What you give up: choose which model answers and keep a chosen repository out of chat and autocomplete. You only get part of: add a file, a symbol, or a repository as context.

  Free alternatives to Sourcegraph Cody

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

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  Instead of Sourcegraph Cody9 of 9 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: choose which model answers and keep a chosen repository out of chat and autocomplete. You only get part of: add a file, a symbol, or a repository as context.The plans page includes chat on Free and calls the allowance limited. Agent mode is also included on Free.The plans table lists inline suggestions at 2,000 a month on Free and unlimited on Pro, Pro+, and Max.Agent mode on Free can run in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Xcode. The CLI row says Free can make and commit code changes locally or on GitHub.The content-exclusion guide tells you to attach the open file as the context file when you test chat. This check did not open a page that shows Cody's @-symbol or remote-repository picker.The plans table includes custom instructions and agents on Free. Custom instructions with instructions.md are marked not included on Free and included on Pro.The plans page lists VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, plus Visual Studio, Neovim, Eclipse, Xcode, and others. Free includes editors.The plans table says the model list is not included on Free, and the billing doc says Free uses automatic selection. Pro, at $10 a user a month, is where that table starts listing models you can pick.Repository admins, organization owners, and enterprise owners can exclude paths, and an organization can name a repository. The September 2, 2026 changelog says the Copilot app and CLI respect that for Business and Enterprise. The free plan does not give an individual that switch.The plans table includes the CLI on Free, including use from the terminal and making commits.

Related alternatives

DevOps alternatives

• Free alternatives to Bitbucket
• Free alternatives to Conductor
• Free alternatives to GitHub
• Free alternatives to Jules
• Free alternatives to Ollama Cloud
• Free alternatives to Ona

Free apps in this group

• Aider: Terminal pair programming that commits each edit to git.
• Bugsink: A smaller Sentry-compatible error store.
• Cline: An Apache-2.0 coding agent for VS Code and the terminal. No inline autocomplete.
• Continue: An Apache-2.0 IDE assistant. The repository is read-only after the Cursor acquisition.
• cState: A Hugo status page. Incidents are markdown files.
• Cursor: A coding editor with Tab autocomplete and an agent. Free is limited. The code is closed.
• Devin: The desktop editor formerly sold as Windsurf. Free includes Tab. The code is closed.
• Errbit: An older Airbrake-compatible error catcher.
• Forgejo: A community forge, GPL-3.0 since v9.
• Gatus: A health dashboard with a status page in the config file.
• Gitea: A lightweight Git forge.
• GitLab Community Edition: The MIT edition of GitLab, without EE.
• GlitchTip: Error tracking compatible with Sentry SDKs.
• Highlight: Session replay and errors, with a split license.
• Kener: A status page with incidents, maintenance, and email subscriptions.
• llama.cpp: LLM inference in C and C++. The license is MIT. llama-server speaks an OpenAI-style API.
• Ollama: Run open models on your own computer. The license is MIT.
• OneUptime: Status pages plus monitors, incidents, and on-call.
• OpenCode: A terminal and desktop coding agent that can open a GitHub pull request.
• OpenHands: Agent Canvas, a self-hosted control center for coding agents.
• Radicle: A peer-to-peer code forge.
• SigNoz: Traces, metrics, and logs in one app.
• SourceHut: Git hosting composed of small services.
• Tabby: A self-hosted completion server. Community is free for up to 5 users.
• Uptime Kuma: Uptime checks, with a public status page of those checks.
• vLLM: An Apache-2.0 model server with an OpenAI-compatible API.

Where we looked

• https://github.com/features/copilot/plans
• https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-copilot-licenses
• https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing-and-usage/individuals/billing
• https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/configure-content-exclusion/exclude-content-from-copilot
• https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-02-content-exclusions-generally-available-in-copilot-app-and-cli/