GitHub Copilot
github.comSummary
GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered coding assistant that integrates directly into code editors, providing real-time code suggestions, refactoring, debugging, and documentation generation. It offers various specialized modes and tools, including the ability to run terminal commands and control web browsers, and is available for individual developers and enterprises.
Features9/13
See allMust Have
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Conversational AI
API Access
Safety & Alignment Framework
Fine-Tuning & Custom Models
Enterprise Solutions
Other
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Code Generation
Multimodal AI
Research & Publications
Security & Red Teaming
Image Generation
Synthetic Media Provenance
Threat Intelligence Reporting
Global Affairs & Policy
PricingTiered
See allFree
- Unlimited public/private repositories
- Dependabot security and version updates
- 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month (Free for public repositories)
- 500MB of Packages storage (Free for public repositories)
- Issues & Projects
- Community support
Team
- Everything included in Free
- Access to GitHub Codespaces
- Protected branches
- Multiple reviewers in pull requests
- Draft pull requests
- Code owners
- Required reviewers
- Pages and Wikis
- Environment deployment branches and secrets
- 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month (Free for public repositories)
- 2GB of Packages storage (Free for public repositories)
- Web-based support
Enterprise
- Everything included in Team
- Data residency
- Enterprise Managed Users
- User provisioning through SCIM
- Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
- Environment protection rules
- Repository rules
- Audit Log API
- SOC1, SOC2, type 2 reports annually
- FedRAMP Tailored Authority to Operate (ATO)
- SAML single sign-on
- Advanced auditing
- GitHub Connect
- 50,000 CI/CD minutes/month (Free for public repositories)
- 50GB of Packages storage (Free for public repositories)
Rationale
GitHub Copilot, as described on the GitHub platform, directly aligns with the core features of an AI platform. It offers conversational AI capabilities through its chat features, provides API access for integration, and emphasizes safety and security features. The ability to create 'Custom Modes' and integrate with 'Custom API/model' suggests fine-tuning and custom model capabilities. Furthermore, GitHub offers 'Copilot for business' and 'Enterprise' solutions, directly matching the enterprise solutions feature. The primary offering is code generation, and it supports multimodal AI through its ability to understand and generate content across text and potentially other modalities (though primarily code). The platform also highlights research and publications, and security features like 'duplication detection filter' and 'vulnerable code' scanning, aligning with safety and red teaming.