GitHub Copilot Alternatives Ranked by Price, Editor Support and Privacy Terms
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GitHub Copilot Pro is $10 USD per user / month, and that is the number every replacement has to beat. On the vendor pages read on 17 September 2026, most do not: three of the ten ranked here charge $19 or more per developer, one is $39 per user per month on an annual subscription only, and one starts at a $16K minimum annual contract. The exits that cost less charge nothing for the software and send the bill to whichever model provider you point them at.
Leaving also costs what Copilot already publishes: an extension for VS Code, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, JetBrains IDEs and Azure Data Studio, model selection, and support for your own model key. What $10 does not buy is privacy: on individual plans GitHub may train on your prompts, outputs and code snippets unless you opt out, and only Business and Enterprise data is excluded.
What this ranking measures
This ranking compares published information on four things: what one developer pays against Copilot Pro at $10 USD per user / month, Business at $19 per granted seat and Enterprise at $39; which editors each vendor says it supports; whether you can choose the model or bring your own key; and what each vendor commits to in writing about training on your code. It does not measure code quality, benchmark scores or speed, because nobody installed or subscribed to anything. Where a vendor publishes no figure, that silence costs it position. Bolt and Lovable publish no IDE integration or model selection, so they are not ranked here.
The short answer
No seat fee at all on the Open Source plan against Copilot Pro’s $10 USD per user / month, the widest published editor list in this set, and your own key, endpoint or weights across any provider.
OpenCode Go is $10/month, level with Copilot Pro, billed monthly with no annual plan and no promotional first term published, while the free tier stays usable at 200 requests/day.
Apache 2.0 with no seat price at any point, and the vendor documents free API providers and local models, so the model bill can be zero too.
All 10 compared
| # | Product | Best for | Price from | What decides its place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leaving Copilot without paying any seat fee | Open Source: Free. ClinePass: $9.99/month. Enterprise: Custom. | $9.99/month or no seat fee at all, against Copilot Pro’s $10 | Visit | |
| 2 | Matching Copilot’s $10 with open model choice | OpenCode agent: Free. OpenCode Go: $10/month. Zen: pay-as-you-go. | 200 requests/day free; Go is $10/month, billed monthly only | Visit | |
| 3 | The cheapest exit if you live in the terminal | No price published — Apache 2.0 open source. | $0 seat price, but no editor list and no training statement | Visit | |
| 4 | JetBrains users who want BYOK on the free tier | AI Free: Free. AI Pro: US $10.00 /per user, per month, or US $100.00 /per user, per year. AI Pro (Organizations): US $20.00 /per user, per month. | US $10.00/month individual, US $20.00/month for organizations | Visit | |
| 5 | Teams needing a flat no-training statement | $19 per user per month with an upfront annual commitment; $22.80 per user per month with no commitment. Enterprise: $45 / $54. Individuals: $0/user/month. | $19/user/month committed, $22.80 without, near double Copilot Pro | Visit | |
| 6 | People already paying for ChatGPT | Free: ₫0 / month. Go: ₫132,000 / month. Plus: ₫522,500 / month. Business: ₫519,000/month if billed annually, ₫649,000/month if billed monthly. | No USD on any plan card; Go reads ₫132,000 / month | Visit | |
| 7 |  | AWS shops that want a perpetual free tier | Free Tier: zero cost. Pro Tier: $19/mo. per user. | 50 agentic requests/month free, then $19/mo. per user | Visit |
| 8 | Buyers whose blocker is training on code | Code Assistant Platform: $39 per user per month { Annual subscription }. Agentic Platform: $59 per user per month { Annual subscription }. | $39 per user per month, annual only, and no free tier | Visit | |
| 9 | Small teams that want one bill, not seats | Core: $20 / month (monthly), or $20 $18 / month, billed annually (yearly toggle). Pro: $100 / month, or $100 $90 / month, billed annually. | $20 / month covers up to 5 collaborators, no per-seat fee | Visit | |
| 10 | Enterprises already buying code search | STARTING AT $16K — minimum annual contract, contact sales. | $16K minimum annual contract, no per-seat price published | Visit |
1. Cline
Why it sits at 1 $9.99/month or no seat fee at all, against Copilot Pro’s $10
The Open Source plan is listed at Free, with no subscriptions or seat fees stated for it. The published editor list is the widest here: VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, the JetBrains family, Antigravity, Zed and Neovim.
You pick the provider and pay for inference. ClinePass at $9.99/month bundles open-weight models at 2-5x standard API rate limits, a multiple of an unnamed baseline. Cline says managed-inference code never trains its models, but its Terms license user content to improve its products.
- Widest published editor coverage, with your own key, endpoint or weights.
- The JetBrains plugin is an Enterprise-plan feature on the pricing page, but general in the docs.
2. OpenCode
Why it sits at 2 200 requests/day free; Go is $10/month, billed monthly only
Go is $10/month, level with Copilot Pro. The site publishes no annual plan and no promotional first term, so the advertised rate is the recurring one. The agent itself is free, needs no account, and ships with free models capped at a published 200 requests/day.
Editor coverage is narrower than Cline’s: a VS Code-family extension covering Cursor, Windsurf and VSCodium, plus any editor with a terminal, but no JetBrains plugin. Privacy is published in detail: unpaid-account content may be used to develop the service, and two Go models are marked as trained on.
- You can sign in with a ChatGPT or Claude account you already hold.
- One subscriber per workspace: a team cannot share a Go seat.
3. Aider
Why it sits at 3 $0 seat price, but no editor list and no training statement
Aider publishes no pricing page, no plan and no seat price; its FAQ states the tool is open source under Apache 2.0. It is provider-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama and OpenRouter, and documents free providers and local models as zero-cost routes.
Two of the four measures here are absent. Aider publishes no supported-editor list, a terminal tool used beside your editor, and no statement about training, since its analytics page covers only its own telemetry. That is why it sits behind JetBrains AI, which charges US $10.00 per user per month but publishes both.
- The whole product is free under Apache 2.0, with documented local-model routes.
- No IDE plugin, no supported-editor list, and no statement on training.
4. JetBrains AI
Why it sits at 4 US $10.00/month individual, US $20.00/month for organizations
AI Pro is US $10.00 /per user, per month on the monthly toggle, level with Copilot Pro, or US $100.00 /per user, per year on the yearly one. AI Free gives 3 AI Credits per 30 days plus unlimited completion from the Mellum model.
Bring-your-own-key works on every tier, but coverage is one family: every JetBrains IDE and Android Studio, with the Junie agent limited to a named subset, and no VS Code. Commercial buyers pay US $20.00 /per user, per month on the Organizations tab, above Copilot Business’s $19 seat.
- BYOK and unlimited local models via Ollama or LM Studio work on the free tier.
- Zero data retention is gated to AI Enterprise at US $60.00 per user per month.
5. Gemini Code Assist
Why it sits at 5 $19/user/month committed, $22.80 without, near double Copilot Pro
Standard is $19 per user per month with an upfront annual commitment, or $22.80 with none, roughly double Copilot Pro either way. Google states that it does not train its models on customer prompts or responses, and publishes a 1,000,000-token context window.
Model choice is a picker of Google’s own Gemini models, documented for Standard and Enterprise only, and no bring-your-own-key option appears anywhere. The individuals tier is still listed at $0/user/month, yet the vendor says its IDE extensions and Gemini CLI stopped serving it on 18 June 2026.
- Editor coverage spans VS Code, JetBrains, Android Studio, Cloud Workstations and Cloud Shell Editor.
- Risk reversal is a 30-day trial for 50 people needing a credit card, not a refund.
6. ChatGPT (Codex)
Why it sits at 6 No USD on any plan card; Go reads ₫132,000 / month
Codex is bundled into every ChatGPT plan rather than sold separately, so the free plan carries limited Codex access and a subscription you hold may cover it. The extension covers VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code Insiders, plus Xcode and JetBrains integrations.
This ranking’s first question cannot be answered from the pricing page: every plan card renders in Vietnamese dong with no currency selector, and no USD figure appears outside FAQ prose. On Free, Go, Plus and Pro, content trains OpenAI’s models by default with an opt-out, the same posture as Copilot’s individual plans.
- Choose the model and reasoning effort per session, or use an OpenAI API key instead.
- Bring-your-own-key is OpenAI keys only; no third-party or local key is documented.
7. Amazon Q Developer
Why it sits at 7 50 agentic requests/month free, then $19/mo. per user
Pro is $19/mo. per user, matching a Copilot Business seat, billed monthly at that rate ongoing. The free tier is described as perpetual and carries real numbers: 50 agentic requests per month across the IDE plugins and CLI.
Two things cost it position. AWS has published an end-of-support date for the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins and points users to Kiro, which undercuts any editor claim; and there is no bring-your-own-key, with model choice limited to Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Sonnet 4.
- A perpetual free tier with a published cap and a 200k-token window on both chat models.
- Pro’s agentic-request allowance is published only as included with limits.
8. Tabnine
Why it sits at 8 $39 per user per month, annual only, and no free tier
Tabnine publishes the strongest privacy terms here: it never trains its models on customer code and holds zero code retention. Point it at your own on-prem or cloud endpoint and usage is unlimited with no token charge; Tabnine-provided access costs provider prices plus a 5% handling fee.
The price is what drops it. $39 per user per month on an annual subscription, with no monthly option published, is level with a Copilot Enterprise seat and 3.9x Copilot Pro. There is no free tier, and every plan CTA reads Get a quote.
- One plugin covers 13 JetBrains IDEs, plus VS Code, Eclipse and Visual Studio.
- The 30-day refund lives in the Terms of Use, and the trial URL renders a contact form.
9. Replit Agent
Why it sits at 9 $20 / month covers up to 5 collaborators, no per-seat fee
Replit does not price per developer. Core is $20 / month on monthly billing, while the page opens on the yearly toggle showing $18 / month billed annually with $20 struck through, and it includes up to 5 collaborators.
Editor coverage is the problem: the Agent runs in Replit’s own cloud workspace, there is no first-party VS Code or JetBrains extension, and local-IDE editing is documented only over SSH, a paid feature. The no-training commitment excludes public apps, which are MIT-licensed and may train models indefinitely.
- Its Terms publish full refunds on subscription payments within 30 days, the clearest here.
- The free Starter plan is not listed on the pricing page and its Agent allowance is unquantified.
10. Sourcegraph Cody
Why it sits at 10 $16K minimum annual contract, no per-seat price published
Cody is now gated to the Enterprise plan: Cody Free, Cody Pro and Cody in Enterprise Starter were shut off on 23 July 2025. What remains is strong on three measures: VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio and CLI clients; admin-configured models with BYOK; and no training on customer data.
It ranks last because the first measure is unanswerable. No vendor page shows a per-developer price, only STARTING AT $16K as a minimum annual contract behind Contact sales, with credits that scale with team size but no seat bands published.
- Publishes exact context caps: 30,000 tokens of mention context, 15,000 of conversation.
- Output is capped at 4,000 tokens, roughly 500-600 lines of code by Sourcegraph’s own equation.
Which one fits your situation
Cline’s Open Source plan at Free, or OpenCode Go at $10/month if you would rather buy a bundle than manage keys.
JetBrains AI Pro at US $10.00 per user per month on the monthly toggle, but budget US $20.00 on the Organizations tab.
You may not need to leave: Copilot Business at $19 per granted seat excludes customer data from training. Otherwise Tabnine publishes never-trains and zero retention at $39 per user per month.
Replit Core at $20 / month on monthly billing includes up to 5 collaborators, but local-IDE work is documented only over SSH on paid plans.
The free tier is enough, so do not buy anything yet. Cline’s Open Source plan is Free, OpenCode’s free models allow 200 requests/day, and Amazon Q allows 50 agentic requests per month.
What this market gets people for
- Reading a per-month price without checking the billing term it assumes Gemini Code Assist is $19 per user per month only with an upfront annual commitment; month to month it is $22.80. Replit’s page opens on the yearly toggle at $18 / month billed annually, while the monthly rate is $20. Tabnine’s $39 is annual-only.
- Assuming you can cancel and get your money back GitHub’s docs state no refund for unused time, OpenAI’s terms say payments are non-refundable, and JetBrains states all AI subscriptions and credits are non-refundable. Amazon Q charges the full month on mid-month cancellation.
- Trusting a free tier you read about somewhere else Gemini Code Assist for individuals is still listed at $0/user/month, but the vendor says its IDE extensions and Gemini CLI stopped serving that tier on 18 June 2026. Cody Free and Cody Pro ended on 23 July 2025.
- Treating free software as free to run Aider, Cline and OpenCode past its free models all move the cost to a model provider, and Cline warns those providers may train on your content unless you opt out with them. Copilot’s $10 bundles $15 of monthly credits, with a footnote that flex allotments will vary over time.
Questions buyers ask
What exactly am I comparing against?
Copilot Pro at $10 USD per user / month, Copilot Business at $19 per granted seat per month and Copilot Enterprise at $39. Copilot Free is capped at 2,000 completions per month. GitHub publishes no annual price, no promotional first term and no separate renewal figure for any individual plan.
Is anything cheaper per developer than Copilot Pro?
One published subscription: ClinePass at $9.99/month. OpenCode Go matches Copilot Pro at $10/month. Everything else here is either free software you pair with your own model provider, or $19 and up.
Which alternatives promise not to train on my code?
Tabnine states it never trains its models on customer code and holds zero code retention. Google states it does not train on customer prompts or responses. Sourcegraph states it does not train on customer data. Replit commits not to train on customer code, except public apps, which are MIT-licensed and may be used to train models indefinitely.
Can I keep my editor?
VS Code is covered by Cline, OpenCode’s VS Code-family extension, the Codex extension, Gemini Code Assist, Amazon Q, Tabnine and Cody. JetBrains IDEs are covered by JetBrains AI, Tabnine, Gemini Code Assist, Amazon Q, Cody and the ChatGPT JetBrains integration. Aider publishes no supported-editor list, and Replit publishes no first-party plugin.
Do any of them give money back?
Replit publishes full refunds for subscription payments made within 30 days, with usage-based billing charges non-refundable. Tabnine publishes a 30-day full refund, in its Terms of Use rather than on its pricing page. JetBrains states all AI subscriptions and AI credits are non-refundable, and GitHub, OpenAI and Cline all publish no-refund terms.
What would ten seats cost?
Copilot Business is $19 per granted seat per month. Amazon Q Pro is $19/mo. per user. Gemini Code Assist Standard is $19 per user per month with an upfront annual commitment, or $22.80 without. JetBrains AI Pro on the Organizations tab is US $20.00 per user per month. Tabnine is $39 per user per month on an annual subscription. Sourcegraph publishes no seat price, only a $16K minimum annual contract.
What none of them publish
These are the questions a buyer would want settled that no vendor on this page answers in public. If one of them decides your purchase, ask the vendor and hold them to the answer.
- Not one vendor here publishes a renewal price distinct from its advertised price, so year-two cost cannot be read from any pricing page.
- Cline’s Enterprise seat price, OpenCode’s Enterprise price and Sourcegraph’s per-seat rate under the $16K minimum are all quote-only, and Tabnine’s published $39 and $59 still end in Get a quote.
- Amazon Q publishes the Pro tier’s agentic-request allowance only as Included (with limits), so the paid monthly cap and any overage rate for it are unknown.
- GitHub publishes no default per-model context window for Copilot, and Cline, OpenCode and Replit publish no context-window figure for their own agents.
- Repository-indexing limits are mostly unpublished: GitHub, Tabnine, OpenCode and Replit publish no cap at all; Gemini’s 20,000-repository Enterprise ceiling is the exception.
- Cline’s Terms never define whether ClinePass counts as a per-seat subscription for the carve-out that stops Cline licensing your content to improve its products.
- Tabnine publishes no trial length or trial terms; the 90-day-free-trial URL renders a contact form, as does the install page.
- OpenAI publishes no USD price on its plan cards and no monthly per-seat price for ChatGPT Business; USD figures appear only in FAQ prose.
- Replit publishes no credit amount, daily cap or monthly cap for the free Starter tier’s Agent allowance, and no per-checkpoint price.
- JetBrains does not publish how many requests one AI Credit buys, or whether credits are prorated on mid-term cancellation.
- Sourcegraph’s pricing FAQ carries the question about a free trial, but the answer text does not render, so the trial terms could not be read.
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