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Buy GitHub Copilot when this is your buying shape
Organizations that want a more conservative, lower-friction coding rollout across many developers. Starting price signal: $10 /mo.
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GitHub Copilot pricing guide
GitHub Copilot pricing is strongest when buyers want standard coding assistance at scale before paying for a unified coding-agent workspace.
Best for
Organizations that want a more conservative, lower-friction coding rollout across many developers.
Avoid if
You already know the team needs Cursor 3-style local-cloud handoff, deeper workflow customization, or a dedicated agent workspace inside engineering.
Starting price
$10 /mo
Last verified
Aug 10, 2026
Last verified: Aug 10, 20264 official sources
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GitHub Copilot budget decision rules
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Switch
Switch-check Cursor when the avoid condition applies
You already know the team needs Cursor 3-style local-cloud handoff, deeper workflow customization, or a dedicated agent workspace inside engineering.
Wait
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Plan snapshot
Published plan snapshot
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Free tier available · Paid from $10/mo
Free
$0 / month
$0 per seat / month on annual billing
- 50 agent or chat requests per month
- 2,000 completions per month
- Copilot CLI
Pro
Popular$10 / month
$8.33 per seat / month on annual billing
- Coding agent
- Code review
- Claude and Codex on GitHub and VS Code
- $15 total monthly GitHub AI Credits
Pro+
$39 / month
No annual price published
- Everything in Pro
- $70 total monthly GitHub AI Credits
- GitHub Spark
- Higher access for power users
Max
$100 / month
No annual price published
- Highest individual Copilot plan
- $200 total monthly GitHub AI Credits
- More headroom for agents, chat, Spark, and premium models
Business
$19 / month
No annual price published
- License and policy management
- IP indemnity
- IDE, CLI, and GitHub Mobile coverage
- Data excluded from training by default
Enterprise
$39 / month
No annual price published
- Everything in Business
- Deeper GitHub.com integration
- Repository indexing and tailored suggestions
- 3,900 monthly AI Credits per seat pooled at the billing entity
Cost scenarios
GitHub Copilot published pricing by team size
These monthly scenarios use published pricing and exclude taxes, negotiated discounts, and unlisted usage overage.
Pricing guide
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Related compareGitHub Copilot vs CursorCursor wins when an engineering team wants a unified agent workspace with the deepest IDE-native coding flow. GitHub Copilot wins when GitHub-centric rollout, policy control, and seat efficiency matter more than Cursor 3's premium workflow depth.Related compareGitHub Copilot vs Devin Desktop (Windsurf)GitHub Copilot is the governance-first coding rollout with the lower-risk approval path. Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is the stronger choice for teams that want a Devin-centered local IDE plus cloud-agent workflow and are willing to model premium engineering-tool prices.Top alternativeCompare top alternativeOrganizations that want a more conservative, lower-friction coding rollout across many developers.
FAQ
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Copilot Business is stronger when the rollout goal is broad developer coverage and policy consistency, not Cursor 3's deeper multi-agent workflow. If the team will mostly use AI inside familiar GitHub and IDE surfaces, the lower seat price and pooled 1,900 AI Credits per seat usually win.
No. Lower price only wins if the team does not need the deeper agent workspace, shared MCP setup, or cloud-execution value that premium alternatives provide. Cheap seats are a mistake if developers really need a more specialized operating surface.
Yes. Cursor 3 makes the premium seat easier to defend for some engineering teams, but it does not erase the large price gap between Copilot Business and Cursor Teams. Copilot still wins the value case unless the team will actually use the extra workflow depth.
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