Amazon Q Developer vs GitHub Copilot

A side-by-side comparison of Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot — pricing, free tiers, and who each tool is genuinely best for.

	Amazon Q Developer	GitHub Copilot
Tagline	AWS's AI coding assistant for building, transforming, and operating on AWS	AI pair programmer that autocompletes code and chats inside your editor
Category	AI Coding	AI Coding
Pricing	Free tier; Pro from ~$19/user/mo	Free tier with limited completions; Pro from ~$10/user/mo; Business ~$19/user/mo; Enterprise ~$39/user/mo
Free tier
Best for	Teams building on AWS who want an assistant that understands their cloud services and can automate code transformations.	Developers and teams already living in GitHub and mainstream IDEs who want trusted inline completions plus chat.
Not for	Developers outside the AWS ecosystem who want a vendor-neutral, frontier-model-first experience.	Teams wanting a fully agentic, repo-rewriting IDE rather than an assistant layered onto their existing editor.
Use cases	AWS-aware code completion Java version upgrades Code transformation Infrastructure troubleshooting Agentic feature development	Inline code completion Code explanation and chat Writing unit tests Refactoring functions Generating boilerplate
	Visit Amazon Q Developer	Visit GitHub Copilot

Choose it if: Teams building on AWS who want an assistant that understands their cloud services and can automate code transformations.

Choose it if: Developers and teams already living in GitHub and mainstream IDEs who want trusted inline completions plus chat.