GitHub Copilot review
The safe team default — cheap per seat, everywhere your engineers already are, if you do not need a full agent.
Tested score
7.8/10
- Task completion·25%7.8
- Code quality·20%8.0
- Speed·15%7.6
- Value for money·15%8.2
- Learning curve·15%7.5
- Team & security·10%7.4
Weights are fixed for the whole category and published in How we test.
The verdict
GitHub Copilot is the low-friction team choice: it lives in the editors your engineers already use, costs the least per seat, and its inline completion is genuinely good. It is not an autonomous agent, so it falls short on the multi-file, hands-off tasks Cursor and Claude Code handle — buy it when broad, cheap coverage matters more than topping the completion score.
Who this is wrong for
- You want an autonomous agent that drives multi-file changes end to end.
- You need the highest task-completion rate regardless of price.
GitHub Copilot Individual — $10/user/mo
Commission-earning link. Score was locked on 9 Jul 2026, before terms were checked.
The test log
Same 12 tasks run against every agent in this category
| # | Task | Result | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paginate a list endpoint and wire the UI control | Passed | 14m | Strong inline completion; needed a nudge on the UI wiring. |
| 2 | Fix an N+1 query in the orders report | Passed | 12m | Suggested the eager-load once pointed at the query. |
| 3 | Cross-service migration touching auth and billing | Failed | 26m | Not an autonomous agent — stalled without step-by-step direction. |
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Pricing at time of testing
checked 9 Jul 2026Individual
$10/user/mo
What we tested
What we testedBusiness
$19/user/mo
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