AI Tool Zen

GitHub Copilot is an AI‑powered coding assistant developed by GitHub and OpenAI. It integrates into popular code editors like Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs and Neovim to help developers write code faster and with fewer errors. Copilot reads the context around your cursor and suggests whole lines or functions, writes boilerplate code, and helps you explore new APIs or languages. You can also use a chat interface to ask Copilot questions about your code and get explanations or debugging help.

Key features

• AI code generation: Copilot predicts and completes code based on natural language comments or existing code. It can generate entire functions, algorithms or boilerplate code in many programming languages.
• Copilot Chat: A conversational AI assistant inside your IDE. Ask questions about your codebase, get explanations for specific functions, generate code from descriptions, and troubleshoot errors.
• Debugging and tests: Copilot can suggest fixes for bugs, generate tests for your functions and even propose commit messages and pull request summaries.
• Context awareness: It uses the context of your project to provide relevant suggestions and respects the coding style and frameworks you use.
• Multiple languages and frameworks: Supports dozens of programming languages and frameworks so you can use it across your projects.

Plans and pricing

• Copilot Pro (individual): Designed for individual developers. It costs about USD $10 per user per month or USD $100 per year. The Pro plan provides unlimited code completions, chat, and access to Copilot’s AI models across editors.
• Copilot Business: Intended for teams and organizations. Priced around USD $19 per user per month, it adds features like seat management, policy controls, SAML single sign‑on and IP indemnity.
• Copilot Enterprise (Pro+): For large enterprises. It costs about USD $39 per user per month or USD $390 per year. This plan includes advanced governance, organization‑specific knowledge bases, longer context windows, Bing search and pull‑request summaries.

GitHub offers Copilot free for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.

How to get started

To start using GitHub Copilot, sign up for the plan that fits your needs at github.com/features/copilot. After subscribing, install the Copilot extension in your IDE (e.g. Visual Studio Code). Sign in with your GitHub account to activate Copilot, and begin writing or asking questions to see suggestions appear in your editor.