Tools
Augment Code vs GitHub Copilot
Augment Code or GitHub Copilot? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Chat about your code, Agent that edits files, Knows the whole codebase, Runs commands, Reviews pull requests, Command line, Choice of models, No code retained, Builds agents and workflows
- Only Augment Code states: Self-hosted, Traces and evaluates
- Only GitHub Copilot states: Inline completion, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Search over your data
Augment Code
Augment Code provides AI agents for coding, code review, testing, incident response, and software delivery workflows.
Plans
Standard
- $20 /month
- $20 of usage included every month
- Up to 50 seats
- Top-ups, pay as you go
- Context Engine
- CLI access
- MCP & Native Tools
Business
- $100 /month
- $100 of usage included every month
- Up to 50 seats
- Top-ups, pay as you go
- Context Engine
- CLI access
- MCP & Native Tools
Enterprise
Price on request
- Custom usage
- Custom top-up
- Unlimited users
- Custom size compute
- Multi-region compute
- Dedicated support
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Chat about your code — “Chat & Agents” source
- Agent that edits files — “Assign a ticket; the loop investigates, writes the change, and exercises it end to end.” source
- Knows the whole codebase — “A live map of your entire codebase, always current, so agents start from real understanding.” source
- Runs commands — “Groups safe minor/patch bumps into a single PR per repo, runs the test suite, and only merges automatically when CI is green.” source
- Reviews pull requests — “Every PR gets a substantive first-pass review within minutes.” source
- Command line — “Software Factory as Code. Define your Experts, environments, and event-driven workflows as versioned YAML.” source
- Choice of models — “Any harness, any model. Build your own model router with Prism, or use one of our defaults.” source
- Self-hosted — “Self-hosted daemon” source
- No code retained — “Zero data retention” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Use the experts we ship, choose from our library , fork them, or build your own.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Audit logs + SIEM” source
Latest updates
- IntelliJ Plugin v0.491.0 Release Notes (v0.491.0)
The agent now asks for your approval before reading a file that looks sensitive; MCP servers reached over HTTP, SSE, or Streamable HTTP now go through your configured…
- VSCode Extension 0.901.1 Release Notes (0.901.1)
Chat submit is now a VS Code keyboard shortcut; workspace-defined Augment hooks now run only in trusted workspaces.
- Auggie CLI 0.36.0 Release Notes (0.36.0)
Added a flag to control the model's reasoning effort from the CLI.
GitHub Copilot
AI coding assistance for code completion, chat, agents, code review, and command-line workflows.
Plans
Free
Free
- Limited chat and agent usage
- CLI included
- Agent mode included
- 2,000 inline suggestions per month
- Copilot Spaces included
Pro
- $10 per month
- App modernization for Java and .NET
- Assign work to Copilot to create a pull request
- Code review in GitHub and code editors
- Cloud agent included
- Unlimited inline suggestions
- Copilot Spaces included
Pro+
- $39 per month
- Delegate tasks to third-party coding agents (Preview)
- Cloud agent included
- Code review in GitHub and code editors
- Unlimited inline suggestions
- Copilot Spaces included
- CLI included
Max
- $100 per month
- Cloud agent included
- Code review in GitHub and code editors
- Unlimited inline suggestions
- Copilot Spaces included
- CLI included
- Built for heavy Copilot usage
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Inline completion — “Unlimited code completion and next edit suggestions” source
- Chat about your code — “All the offerings include both inline suggestion and chat assistance.” source
- Agent that edits files — “Assign work to Copilot to research, plan, and write code — with or without a pull request” source
- Knows the whole codebase — “GitHub Copilot Enterprise can index an organization’s codebase for a deeper understanding of the customer’s knowledge for more tailored suggestions” source
- Runs commands — “run terminal checks” source
- Reviews pull requests — “Pull request reviews in GitHub” source
- VS Code — “GitHub Copilot is available as an extension in Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, the JetBrains suite of IDEs, and Azure Data Studio.” source
- JetBrains IDEs — “GitHub Copilot is available as an extension in Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, the JetBrains suite of IDEs, and Azure Data Studio.” source
- Command line — “Use Copilot from your terminal” source
- Choice of models — “Choose from leading LLMs optimized for speed, accuracy, or cost.” source
- No code retained — “Prompts and Suggestions: Not retained” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Turn skills and prompts into repeatable work that can be run on a regular basis.” source
- Search over your data — “creating a shared source of truth that includes context from your docs and repositories.” source
Security
- SOC 2 — “GitHub’s API stays secure with ISO, SOC 2, and GDPR.” source
Latest updates
- More ways to request and configure Copilot code reviews
- Local sandboxing in the GitHub Copilot app
- OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app