| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 72 | 71 |
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| Confidence | high | high |
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| Rank in category | No. 4 of 16 | No. 5 of 16 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 100 | 92 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 65 | 55 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 43 | 67 |
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| Community posts sampled | 21 | 15 |
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| Experts vs crowd | Crowd cooler by 22 | Crowd warmer by 12 |
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| Adoption |
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| GitHub stars | n/e | 127k |
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| npm weekly downloads | n/e | 19M |
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| PyPI monthly downloads | n/e | n/e |
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| VS Code installs | 78M | 15M |
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| Reported users | 50M | 5M |
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| Reported customer organisations | n/e | n/e |
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| Releases, last 90 days | 100 | 35 |
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| Benchmarks (shown, not scored) |
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| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not listed | No. 4 of 43 · 82.25%
Codex CLI + GPT-5.5 |
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| SWE-bench | not listed | not listed |
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| Independent reviews | 7 | 8 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | B | B |
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| Permission model | B | A |
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| Data access scope | A | A |
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| Data storage | n/e | B |
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| Data retention & training | C | C |
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| Incident history | n/e | C |
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| Compliance | A | A |
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| Transparency | B | A |
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| Price |
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| Price | Free, paid from $10 | Free, paid from $8 |
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| Plans | - Free: Free
- Pro: $10 / monthly
- Pro+: $39 / monthly
- Max: $100 / monthly
- Business: $19 / monthly per user
- Enterprise: $39 / monthly per user
| - Free: Free
- Go: $8 / monthly
- Plus: $20 / monthly
- Pro: $100 / monthly
- Business: $20 / monthly
- Enterprise & Edu: Custom
- API key: Custom
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| Product |
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| Category | Coding agents | Coding agents |
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| Maker | GitHub (Microsoft) | OpenAI |
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| Licence | proprietary | Apache-2.0 |
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| Use it via | IDE extension, CLI, Desktop app, Web app, Mobile app, Chat apps, API | CLI, Desktop app, IDE extension, Web app, API |
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| Runs on | macos, windows, linux, web | macos, linux, windows, web |
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| Models it drives | GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Kimi (open-weight), automatic model routing | GPT |
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| Key features | - Agent mode in VS Code, Visual Studio and JetBrains with an Agents window and local Dev Container execution
- Copilot cloud agent: assign an issue, agent works in an ephemeral GitHub Actions environment and opens one pull request per task
- Copilot CLI terminal agent (npm @github/copilot) with experimental semantic model routing
- Copilot code review and Autofix on pull requests
- Copilot app with Jira, Sentry, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations
- Assisted approvals and local sandboxing for agent sessions (public preview, Sept 2026)
- Third-party coding agents (Claude, OpenAI) available on Pro+ and above
- Token-based GitHub AI Credits billing since June 2026
| - Open-source Rust CLI (Apache-2.0) installable via npm, Homebrew or standalone installers
- Desktop app with in-app diff review and inline comments
- IDE extension for VS Code, Cursor and Windsurf
- OS-level sandbox on by default locally, with configurable approval policy and network off by default
- Optional auto-review mode that routes approval requests through a reviewer agent
- Cloud tasks that run in OpenAI-hosted environments
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| Verdicts |
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| Praised for | - Broad model choice under one enterprise contract, including open-weight models, is cited as its enterprise advantage (HN, July 2026).
- Reach and distribution: 50 million users and deep GitHub integration (Microsoft FY26 Q4 call; GitHub discussion users citing GHE integration).
- Independent reviewers find it pays off for high-volume, well-tested code in mainstream languages (Netguru, Sept 2026).
| - Generous usage within ChatGPT subscriptions compared with rivals, per many community comments (HN)
- Strong Terminal-Bench 2.0 result: rank 4 of 43 harnesses
- Safe-by-default local sandbox and approval model (docs)
- Delegation and review workflow in the app praised by reviewers (Every; Composio)
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| Criticised for | - June 2026 move to usage-based AI Credits was widely read as a large effective price increase; many users said they would cancel (HN and GitHub Community, April 2026).
- Trust damage from Copilot inserting promotional 'tips' into pull requests in March 2026, later withdrawn.
- Individual-plan interaction data used for model training by default since 24 April 2026 unless users opt out.
- Real-world suggestion acceptance reported well below GitHub's published figures (Netguru, Sept 2026).
| - Usage-limit and rate-limit changes cause sharp complaints (GitHub issue #28879 with 364 upvotes)
- Reported bugs with serious side effects, e.g. $HOME deletion in full-access mode (Simon Willison, July 2026) and excessive SSD writes from logs
- Weak front-end/UI output reported by some users (r/codex)
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| Evidence |
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| Evidence collected | 26 Sept 2026 | 26 Sept 2026 |
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| Sources cited | 5 | 3 |
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