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Microsoft Copilot vs GitHub Copilot
Compare Microsoft Copilot vs GitHub Copilot: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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copilot.microsoft.com ↗ GitHub Copilot
github.com/features/copilot ↗ Pricing
Free tier
Free GPT-5 access via Bing — most generous of frontier-tier
Free for verified students, OSS maintainers; 2K completions/mo for everyone else
Standard plan
Copilot Pro — $20/mo
Pro — $10/mo
Top plan
Microsoft 365 Copilot — $30/mo
Enterprise — $39/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$5.00 Best
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API output / 1M tokens
$15.00 Best
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Capability
Context window
128K
128K Best
Max output tokens
8K Best
4K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
Live (web)
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
68% Best
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Math (AIME 2025)
82% Best
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Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
76% Best
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Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1382 Best
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Features
Image input
✓
Partial
Voice mode
✓
Partial
Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
Partial
Image generation
✓
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Code execution
✓
Partial
Agent / tool use
✓
✓
Persistent memory
Partial
Partial
Microsoft Copilot
Tightest M365 integration (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook). Free GPT-5 in Bing Chat. Slightly weaker on benchmarks than ChatGPT due to safety tuning.
GitHub Copilot
Most-installed coding tool. IDE-integrated across VS Code / JetBrains / Visual Studio. Cheapest at $10/mo. Configurable backend (GPT, Claude, Gemini).
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