In-editor completion and chat across most major IDEs. It asks you to change the least: the editor stays, the keybindings stay, and the decision is closer to adding a subscription than to adopting a tool.
Who is buying changes the answer
An individual seat and an organization plan are not the same purchase, and a team does not always end up on the one a developer tried alone. GitHub prices them separately on its own plans page, per user for individuals and per granted seat for organizations, and the figure at the top of this profile is the individual one.
GitHub attaches a qualifier to that price that most vendors do not, printing it in the same cell: free for some users. Its documentation names verified students, verified teachers and maintainers of popular open source projects as eligible for Copilot at no cost. If you are one of those, the entry price on this page is not the price you pay, and it is worth checking before comparing it with anything.
The free plan is the unusual one in this category, because of the two tools profiled here it is the only one that answers with numbers rather than with the word limited. Both figures are at the top of this profile. The second counts chat requests including Copilot Edits, which is GitHub's own scoping and belongs with the number wherever it is quoted, and our methodology sets out why we carry a vendor's qualifier rather than trimming it.