GitHub Copilot is an innovative, AI-powered tool designed to make coding faster and more efficient. By drawing on the context of your code and comments, it can suggest entire functions or individual lines of code in an instant, significantly reducing the amount of work required. It is compatible with a range of integrated development environments (IDEs), including Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and the JetBrains suite of IDEs.
GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, a sophisticated generative language model developed by OpenAI. This technology has been pre-trained on a diverse range of natural language text and source code drawn from publicly available sources, including public repositories on GitHub.
GitHub Copilot can allow or block suggestions matching public code. This policy can be configured by the organization owner in the organization settings. If an organization member is part of multiple organizations with different policies, the most restrictive policy is used.
Your code will not be shared with other users. GitHub follows responsible practices in accordance with their Privacy Statement to ensure that neither your Prompts nor Suggestions will be shared or used as suggested code for other users of GitHub Copilot.
Cost
As of June 1, 2026 GitHub is moving to usage-based billing for Copilot.
Base plan pricing is not changing. The pricing for GitHub Copilot is set at $19.00 per user, per month. Copilot usage is billed in AI credits (1 credit = $0.01) instead of Premium Request units. Each Copilot Business seat includes 3,000 credits ($30) monthly during the June–August promotional period, dropping to 1,900 ($19) from September. Included credits are pooled across all licensed users in your account.
See GitHub’s announcement for more details.
ITS can set a budget on your organization to limit (or alert on) Copilot overage charges. contact the U-M GitHub team if you'd like a cap on your org's spend.
If you're part of a GitHub organization, the organization owner will be responsible for managing licenses for all users within the organization. Users will only require a single license, even if they are members of multiple organizations and use GitHub Copilot for all related activities on the platform.
Getting Started
Enable GitHub Copilot for your organization
- Create a TDX Request that includes your GitHub organization name to the ITS-GitHub team
- Once enabled, follow the instructions to configure access to GitHub Copilot in your organization
Enable GitHub Copilot in your IDE
Learn More
Visit GitHub Copilot for the most up-to-date information.