GitHub Copilot features: tier-by-tier list (2026)

Core capabilities (40)

/features Flex - Collaborative Coding - River Breakout

Innovate faster with seamless collaboration. See the changes you care about. Build community around your code.

GitHub Codespaces

Spin up fully configured dev environments in the cloud with the full power of your favorite editor.

Pull requests

Receive notifications of contributor changes to a repository, with specified access limits, and seamlessly merge accepted updates.

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Discussions

Dedicated space for your community to come together, ask and answer questions, and have open-ended conversations.

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Code search & code view

Rapidly search, navigate, and understand code right from GitHub.com with our powerful new tools.

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Code review

Review new code, visualize changes, and merge confidently with automated status checks.

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Draft pull requests

Collaborate and discuss changes without a formal review or the risk of unwanted merges.

Source · core

Protected branches

Enforce branch merge restrictions by requiring reviews or limiting access to specific contributors.

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GitHub Actions

Automate your software workflows by writing tasks and combining them to build, test, and deploy faster from GitHub.

Source · core automation

GitHub Packages

Host your own software packages or use them as dependencies in other projects, with both private and public hosting available.

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GitHub Marketplace

Leverage thousands of actions and applications from our community to help build, improve, and accelerate your workflows.

Source · core automation

Self-hosted runners

Gain more environments and fuller control with labels, groups, and policies to manage runs on your own machines, plus an open source runner application.

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Security campaigns

Solve your backlog of application security debt with security campaigns that target and generate autofixes for up to 1,000 alerts at a time, rapidly reducing the risk of vulnerabilities and zero-day attacks.

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Secret scanning

Detect exposed secrets in your public and private repositories, and revoke them to secure access to your services.

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Dependency graph

View the packages your project relies on, the repositories that depend on them, and any vulnerabilities detected in their dependencies.

Source · core

Dependabot alerts

Receive alerts when new vulnerabilities affect your repositories, with GitHub detecting and notifying you of vulnerable dependencies in both public and private repositories.

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Dependabot security and version updates

Keep your code secure by automatically opening pull requests that update vulnerable or out-of-date dependencies.

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Dependency review

Assess the security impact of new dependencies in pull requests before merging. Learn more

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Private vulnerability reporting

Enable your public repository to privately receive vulnerability reports from the community and collaborate on solutions.

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GitHub Advisory Database

Browse or search GitHub's database of known vulnerabilities, featuring curated CVEs and security advisories linked to the GitHub dependency graph.

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Access GitHub anywhere: On Desktop, Mobile, and Command Line

Access GitHub anywhere: On Desktop, Mobile, and Command Line. Accessible anywhere. Use GitHub on macOS, Windows, mobile, or tablet with native apps. Efficient management. Handle pull requests, issues, and tasks swiftly with GitHub CLI or mobile.

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GitHub Mobile

Take your projects, ideas, and code to go with fully native mobile and tablet experiences.

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GitHub CLI

Manage issues and pull requests from the terminal, where you're already working with Git and your code.

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Keep feature requests, bugs, and more organized

Keep feature requests, bugs, and more organized. Coordinate initiatives big and small with project tables, boards, and task lists. Engineered for software teams.

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Organizations

Create groups of user accounts that own repositories and manage access on a team-by-team or individual user basis.

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Team sync

Enable team synchronization between your identity provider and your organization on GitHub, including Entra ID and Okta.

Source · core

Custom roles

Define users' access level to your code, data, and settings based on their role in your organization.

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Enterprise accounts

Enable collaboration between your organization and GitHub environments with a single point of visibility and management via an enterprise account.

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Enterprise Managed Users

Manage the lifecycle and authentication of users on GitHub Enterprise Cloud from your identity provider (IdP).

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GitHub Skills

Learn new skills by completing tasks and projects directly within GitHub, guided by our friendly bot.

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Electron

Write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with the Electron framework, based on Node.js and Chromium.

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Education

GitHub Education is a commitment to bringing tech and open source collaboration to students and educators across the globe.

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Ready to get started

Explore all the plans to find the solution that fits your needs. View pricing plans Contact sales

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Coordinate initiatives big and small with project tables

Coordinate initiatives big and small with project tables, boards, and task lists.

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Prevent this user from interacting with your repositories

Prevent this user from interacting with your repositories and sending you notifications.

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Contact GitHub support about this user’s behavior

Contact GitHub support about this user’s behavior. Learn more about reporting abuse .

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AI features (8)

GitHub Copilot Autofix

Powered by GitHub Copilot, generate automatic fixes for 90% of alert types in JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, and Python. Quickly remediate with contextual vulnerability intelligence and advice.

Source · ai

Get suggestions for whole lines of code or

Get suggestions for whole lines of code or entire functions right inside your editor.

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Application security where found means fixed

Application security where found means fixed. Powered by GitHub Copilot Autofix.

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Implementation

[ edit ] GitHub Copilot was initially powered by the OpenAI Codex , [ 14 ] which is a modified, production version of GPT-3 . [ 15 ] The Codex model is additionally trained on gigabytes of source code in a dozen programming languages.

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Licensing controversy

[ edit ] While GitHub CEO Nat Friedman stated in June 2021 that "training ML systems on public data is fair use ", [ 23 ] a class-action lawsuit filed in November 2022 called this "pure speculation", asserting that "no Court has considered the question

Source · ai

GitHub Copilot is a code completion and programming

GitHub Copilot is a code completion and programming AI-assistant developed by GitHub and OpenAI that assists users of Visual Studio Code , Visual Studio , Neovim , Eclipse and JetBrains integrated development environments (IDEs) by autocompleting code.

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On 6 February 2025, GitHub announced "agent mode"

On 6 February 2025, GitHub announced "agent mode", which is a more autonomous mode of operation for the Copilot. Given a programming task, it attempts to accomplish it by executing commands on a Visual Studio instance on the user's computer.

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On 17 May 2025, GitHub announced "coding agent"

On 17 May 2025, GitHub announced "coding agent", which is a more autonomous mode of operation for the Copilot.

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Integrations (1)

Webhooks

Dozens of events and a webhooks API help you integrate with and automate work for your repository, organization, or application.

Source · integrations api webhooks

Automation and workflows (5)

GitHub-hosted runners

Move automation to the cloud with on-demand Linux, macOS, Windows, ARM, and GPU environments for your workflow runs, all hosted by GitHub.

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Workflow visualization

Map workflows, track their progression in real time, understand complex workflows, and communicate status with the rest of the team.

Source · automation

Workflow templates

Standardize and scale best practices and processes with preconfigured workflow templates shared across your organization.

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GitHub Desktop

Simplify your development workflow with a GUI to visualize, commit, and push changes—no command line needed.

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GitHub Sponsors

Financially support the open source projects your code depends on. Sponsor a contributor, maintainer, or project with one time or recurring contributions.

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Collaboration (1)

GitHub Connect

Share features and workflows between your GitHub Enterprise Server instance and GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

Source · collab automation

Reporting and analytics (8)

GitHub security advisories

Privately report, discuss, fix, and publish information about security vulnerabilities found in open source repositories.

Source · reporting

GitHub Projects

Create a customized view of your issues and pull requests to plan and track your work.

Source · reporting

GitHub Issues

Track bugs, enhancements, and other requests, prioritize work, and communicate with stakeholders as changes are proposed and merged.

Source · reporting

Milestones

Track progress on groups of issues or pull requests in a repository, and map groups to overall project goals.

Source · reporting

Charts and insights

Leverage insights to visualize your projects by creating and sharing charts built from your project's data.

Source · reporting

Org dependency insights

View vulnerabilities, licenses, and other important information for the open source projects your organization depends on.

Source · reporting

Repository insights

Use data about activity, trends, and contributions within your repositories, to make data-driven improvements to your development cycle.

Source · reporting

Repository rules

Enhance your organization's security with scalable source code protections, and use rule insights to easily review how and why code changes occurred in your repositories.

Source · reporting

Security and compliance (5)

/features Flex - Automation and CI/CD - River Breakout

Automate everything: CI/CD, testing, planning, project management, issue labeling, approvals, onboarding, and more Standardize and scale best practices, security, and compliance across your organization.

Source · security automation

Custom repository roles

Ensure members have only the permissions they need by creating custom roles with fine-grained permission settings.

Source · security permissions

Compliance reports

Take care of your security assessment and certification needs by accessing GitHub’s cloud compliance reports, such as our SOC reports and Cloud Security Alliance CAIQ self-assessments (CSA CAIQ).

Source · security

Audit log

Quickly review the actions performed by members of your organization. Monitor access, permission changes, user changes, and other events.

Source · security audit log permissions

Use the SSO and SCIM providers of your

Use the SSO and SCIM providers of your choice for Enterprise Managed Users, separate from one another, for a more flexible approach to user lifecycle management.

Source · security sso scim

Administration (1)

Domain verification

Verify your organization's identity on GitHub and display that verification through a profile badge.

Source · admin

See GitHub Copilot pricing in detail

This page lists what GitHub Copilot does. For per-seat math, tier comparison, and the full hidden-fee list, see the GitHub Copilot pricing breakdown.

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Features evolve. Confirm directly with the vendor before purchase decisions. This list was last refreshed on 2026-05-27.

Frequently asked questions

What features does GitHub Copilot include?

This page tracks 69 verified GitHub Copilot features across 8 categories, sourced from GitHub Copilot's official site and Wikipedia.

Which tier do I need for GitHub Copilot?

GitHub Copilot's feature availability varies by plan. Compare the public GitHub Copilot tiers, calculator, and hidden fees on the GitHub Copilot pricing page.

How does GitHub Copilot compare on features to alternatives?

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