Which GitHub Copilot alternatives are still actively developed?

Claude Code (newest commit 8 Oct 2026). Those dates are the newest commit on each project's default branch, read from the GitHub API on 8 Oct 2026. We read the default branch rather than the repository's push timestamp, because a push to any branch moves the second one and makes a finished project look active.

What do GitHub Copilot alternatives cost?

Claude Code: Claude Pro costs $17 per month on the annual plan, $200 billed up front, or $20 per month billed monthly; Max starts at $100 per month. Prices we have not read ourselves are marked "not verified" in the table above rather than copied from our catalogue, which is out of date on 43 of our 190 rows.

How many GitHub Copilot alternatives do you track?

We name 10 on this page. 2 carry judgments and prices we read and quoted, 2 carry live repository data with no judgment yet, and 6 are catalogue entries we have not researched. We say which is which on every row rather than presenting all of them as reviewed.

Best GitHub Copilot alternatives (2026)

GitHub Copilot is an AI assistant that installs into an editor: AI pair programmer with code completion chat and agent mode for agentic coding. We name 10 alternatives below.

Quick answer

Of the 10 alternatives here, 2 have been researched claim by claim. Start with Claude Code.

Choose Claude Code when: Plan a change with Opus and execute it with Sonnet inside one session, by setting the model to `opusplan`. [code.claude.com/docs/en]

It costs: Claude Pro costs $17 per month on the annual plan, $200 billed up front, or $20 per month billed monthly; Max starts at $100 per month. [claude.com/pricing]

How this list is ordered. Tools whose claims we have read and quoted come first, then tools whose repository we track, then catalogue entries we have not researched. Within each band the order is category and workflow overlap. A tool that has stopped is never the first answer. We publish no score out of five: every claim here traces to a source, and a number we could not justify would undermine the ones that can.

2 researched alternatives to GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

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What it is: Claude Code runs only Anthropic models: every alias — default, best, fable, sonnet, opus, haiku and opusplan — resolves to a Claude model, and changing the base URL moves where the request goes without changing which model answers it. [code.claude.com/docs/en]

Choose Claude Code when: Plan a change with Opus and execute it with Sonnet inside one session, by setting the model to `opusplan`. [code.claude.com/docs/en]

Where it hurts: You cannot audit, fork or patch the agent: the repository publishes the changelog, plugins and examples, not the CLI source, under an all-rights-reserved licence. GitHub Copilot CLI is the only other tool in this set that does the same. [github.com/anthropics/claude-code]

Price: Claude Pro costs $17 per month on the annual plan, $200 billed up front, or $20 per month billed monthly; Max starts at $100 per month. [claude.com/pricing]

Stars: 149,849; Verified 8 Oct 2026
Last commit: 8 Oct 2026; 0 days old when we read it; Verified 8 Oct 2026
Latest stable release: v2.1.294; published 8 Oct 2026; Verified 8 Oct 2026

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Continue

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What it is: Continue has stopped: its own README marks the repository read-only for all users after a final 2.0.0 release of the VS Code extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Choose Continue when: Read a complete Apache-2.0 implementation of an IDE coding agent: the VS Code extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin are all in one tree. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Where it hurts: No fix will ever land: the repository is read-only, so any bug you hit is a bug you carry or fork. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Price: Continue costs nothing and no longer sells anything: the final release pulled authentication out of the product. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Continue is finished, not slowing: the repository is read-only, the last release is v2.1.0-vscode on 2026-06-19, and the newest commit on the default branch is 2026-07-21.

Stars: 36,154; Verified 8 Oct 2026
Last commit: 21 Jul 2026; 79 days old when we read it; Verified 8 Oct 2026
License: Apache-2.0; Verified 8 Oct 2026

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GitHub Copilot alternatives at a glance

Tool	Price	State	Newest commit
Claude Code	$17 / $200 / $20 / $100	Active	8 Oct 2026
Continue	stated, no figure	Finished	21 Jul 2026
IntelliCode	not verified	Not tracked	not tracked
Google AI Studio	not verified	Not tracked	not tracked

Also close, not yet researched

These match GitHub Copilot by category and workflow, and we have not read their vendor pages. We publish no judgment and no price for them, because we have no source to put beside one.

IntelliCodeMicrosoft's AI-assisted development tool for VS/VS CodeWebsite checked
Google AI StudioAnother way to vibecode with Gemini - great for experimentingWebsite checked
ClineAutonomous AI coding agent for VS Code connecting CLI and editor via natural commandsCatalogue entry
Amazon Q DeveloperBuild and refactor AWS apps faster with AI that understands your stackCatalogue entry
CodyAI assistant using Sourcegraph code graph to understand entire codebaseCatalogue entry
Augment CodeContext-aware AI agent for large repos that navigates and writes fixes like a senior devCatalogue entry
Kilo CodeOpen-source AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains supporting 500+ modelsCatalogue entry
AmpFrontier coding agent for terminal and editor built by SourcegraphCatalogue entry

Questions people ask

What is the best alternative to GitHub Copilot?: Claude Code is the one we can answer for in full. Plan a change with Opus and execute it with Sonnet inside one session, by setting the model to `opusplan`. Claude Pro costs $17 per month on the annual plan, $200 billed up front, or $20 per month billed monthly; Max starts at $100 per month. Every part of that answer is quoted from a page we read; the links are on this page beside each claim.
Which GitHub Copilot alternatives are still actively developed?: Claude Code (newest commit 8 Oct 2026). Those dates are the newest commit on each project's default branch, read from the GitHub API on 8 Oct 2026. We read the default branch rather than the repository's push timestamp, because a push to any branch moves the second one and makes a finished project look active.
Are any of these GitHub Copilot alternatives dead?: Continue: Continue is finished, not slowing: the repository is read-only, the last release is v2.1.0-vscode on 2026-06-19, and the newest commit on the default branch is 2026-07-21..
What do GitHub Copilot alternatives cost?: Claude Code: Claude Pro costs $17 per month on the annual plan, $200 billed up front, or $20 per month billed monthly; Max starts at $100 per month. Prices we have not read ourselves are marked "not verified" in the table above rather than copied from our catalogue, which is out of date on 43 of our 190 rows.
How many GitHub Copilot alternatives do you track?: We name 10 on this page. 2 carry judgments and prices we read and quoted, 2 carry live repository data with no judgment yet, and 6 are catalogue entries we have not researched. We say which is which on every row rather than presenting all of them as reviewed.

How we check this page

Stars, licences, the newest commit on each default branch and the latest stable release are read from the GitHub API, and each one shows the day it was last confirmed rather than the day this page was built. Every judgment and every price is quoted from a page we read, and that page is linked beside the claim. Where a link is missing we wrote no claim. We have researched 2 of the 10 tools named here.