Overview
- Transparency
- 8 / 10
- Trust
- 95 / 100
Trains on your data
- Free
- Yes
- Paid
- No
- Opt-out
- Yes
Incidents
2- mediumInsufficiently protected credentials in GitHub Copilot
- mediumCritical GitHub Copilot Chat Vulnerability (CamoLeak) Leaked Private Source Code and Secrets
Assessed SEP 21, 2026 · Checked by hand SEP 21, 2026
GitHub confirms individual-plan training with opt-out, no business or enterprise training, provider ZDR and regional hosting, with two supported patched vulnerabilities.
Trust breakdown
95 / 100
Overall trust score
Data and privacy
Trains on your data
- Free
- Yes
- Paid
- No
- Opt-out
- Yes
On by default. Admins can turn it off, which is why it costs less than training with no way out.
Storage regions
Sub-processors
Data retention
GitHub maintains a zero data retention agreement with OpenAI.
Deletion: Following the completion of the Services, to the extent that GitHub is a Processor and unless prohibited by law, GitHub will delete or return all the Customer Personal Data to You, whichever you elect, and delete existing copies in accordance with our retention and deletion policy.
Incidents
2026-07-14
Microsoft Security Response Center
2025-08-14
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GitHub Copilot uses a multi-model architecture, defaulting to GPT-4.1 and offering a wide range of advanced models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Moonshot AI, and xAI. It also utilizes its own fine-tuned models and a system called Project HydraFusion for orchestrating different models.
Integrations and access
Integrations
Available on
Pricing
Free
$0 USD
2,000 completions per month, access to Haiku 4.5, GPT-5 mini, and more, Copilot CLI, Community Support
Pro
$10 USD per user / month
Everything in Free, plus access to Cloud agent and code review, unlimited code completion and next edit suggestions, access to 3rd party agents (Claude Code and Codex), model selection, $15 monthly total credits
Pro+
$39 USD per user / month
Everything in Pro, plus access to premium models including Opus, audit logs, 4x+ included usage than Pro, $70 monthly total credits
Max
$100 USD per user / month
Everything in Pro+, plus priority access to new models and features, 2.9x+ included usage than Pro+, $200 monthly total credits
Copilot Business / Copilot Enterprise
Custom
Copilot Business: $19 USD per granted seat per month, 1,900 GitHub AI Credits per user per month. Copilot Enterprise: $39 USD per granted seat per month, 3,900 GitHub AI Credits per user per month. Both offer access to premium models, with Enterprise having priority access. Usage is measured in AI credits, with additional usage charged at $0.01 USD per AI credit beyond the included pool. Admins can set budgets.
Prices as listed on SEP 21, 2026; check the vendor's page.
Timeline
- 2023-03GitHub Copilot X is revealed, introducing chat interfaces, voice commands, and pull request summaries.
- 2022-12GitHub Copilot for Business is launched, providing enterprise-grade security and license management.
- 2022-06GitHub Copilot becomes generally available to individual developers as a subscription service.
- 2021-06GitHub and OpenAI announce the technical preview of GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Code.
Company
GitHub
- Founded
- 2008
- HQ
- San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Site
- github.com
Popularity
1.5M
monthly visits
Notable customers
GitHub Copilot is the largest AI coding assistant by paid user base and developer awareness, holding approximately 42% market share among paid AI coding tools.
Value and ROI
What it should move: It shortens implementation, reviews, and repetitive coding work.
Best fit
It fits teams that want assistance inside GitHub's source control and reviews.
The catch
Generated code can repeat insecure or unsuitable patterns. Teams still need repository rules, licence checks, tests, and pull-request approval.
- ASOS: Uses GitHub Copilot to navigate codebases, prepare features and conduct initial code reviews.[1]
- Duolingo: Uses GitHub Copilot for code consistency, boilerplate and routine engineering work.[2]
In our stacks for
References
- 01ASOS: how it uses GitHub CopilotGitHubVendor-published
- 02Duolingo: how it uses GitHub CopilotGitHubVendor-published
- 03Privacy policyGitHubVendor-published
- 04TermsGitHubVendor-published
- 05Acceptable useGitHubVendor-published
- 06Trust centerGitHubVendor-published
- 07Pricing pageGitHubVendor-published
- 08Company siteGitHubVendor-published
- 09SOC 2GitHubVendor-published
- 10GDPRGitHubVendor-published
- 11Insufficiently protected credentials in GitHub CopilotMicrosoft Security Response CenterIndependent
- 12Critical GitHub Copilot Chat Vulnerability (CamoLeak) Leaked Private Source Code and SecretsLegit SecurityIndependent