GitHub Copilot
github.com/features/copilot ↗Overall
Design Exploration
4
Design Systems
4
Feature Design
6
UI Craft
4
Prototyping
5
Development
9
UI Generation
6
AI Design
4
Best for
GitHub Copilot is the original AI coding assistant, now used by 15M+ developers.
Strengths
- Agent Mode with autonomous multi-step execution
- Plan Mode for review before coding
- Multi-model selection (GPT-5.1, Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro)
- Deep GitHub integration (PRs, reviews, issues)
- Copilot coding agent assigns issues to AI
- 15M+ developers
Weaknesses
- Not standalone IDE (requires VS Code)
- Premium request limits constraining
- Complex pricing with ‘premium requests’
- Extra charges ($0.04/request) add up
- Less deep than purpose-built AI IDEs