Augment Code vs GitHub Copilot

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

	Augment Code	GitHub Copilot
Tagline	AI coding agent built for large, complex codebases	AI pair programmer that autocompletes code and chats inside your editor
Category	AI Coding	AI Coding
Pricing	Indie from ~$20/mo; Developer ~$50/mo; Business from ~$100/mo; Enterprise custom — verify at augmentcode.com	Free tier with limited completions; Pro from ~$10/user/mo; Business ~$19/user/mo; Enterprise ~$39/user/mo
Free tier
Best for	Engineers working in large monorepos or microservices who need AI that understands the whole codebase.	Developers and teams already living in GitHub and mainstream IDEs who want trusted inline completions plus chat.
Not for	Solo developers on greenfield side projects who don't need deep codebase indexing.	Teams wanting a fully agentic, repo-rewriting IDE rather than an assistant layered onto their existing editor.
Use cases	Full-codebase contextual completion Multi-file agentic refactoring Architecture-aware generation Onboarding to large repos	Inline code completion Code explanation and chat Writing unit tests Refactoring functions Generating boilerplate
	Visit Augment Code	Visit GitHub Copilot

Choose it if: Engineers working in large monorepos or microservices who need AI that understands the whole codebase.

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