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Copilot Free
GitHub Copilotfree$0
Last checked: 2026-10-26
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- Scenario
- Interactive use only
Allowances
2,000code completions / month
›The vendor's own wording
Under "Inline suggestions and Copilot Chat": "Limited to 2000 completions per month on Copilot Free." The plans page states the same allowance as "Inline suggestions Free plan 2,000 per month".Open the source page
Vendor publishes no figure
AI credits / month, value not published
›The vendor's own wording
The plans overview gives Copilot Free at "Free" with GitHub AI Credits "An allowance of GitHub AI Credits", and the page adds "Copilot Free and Copilot Student both have an allowance of AI credits." The plans page gives the Free plan's total GitHub AI Credits as "Limited chat and agent usage". No credit figure is published for it.Open the source page
Models included
| Model | Capability | Burn rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copilot included models | untiered | — | Model selection is restricted on Free; the paid tiers unlock the full selectable list |
Subscription versus your own API key
This compares two ways of working the same way — in an IDE or CLI, where BYOK tools make a direct API key a real option. It is not a claim that subscriptions are cheaper than the API in general.
No API price to compare against
Usage terms
Quoted from the vendor's own terms. We do not give legal advice.
GitHub's Terms for Additional Products and Features do not set out a programmatic-access clause for Copilot themselves; they defer to the GitHub Copilot Product Specific Terms. Copilot is delivered through supported IDEs, the CLI and github.com and exposes no public API endpoint. Read as: the terms do not explicitly authorize it.
Change history
- 2026-10-14Recorded from the seed file
- 2026-07-27Recorded from the seed file