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GitHub Copilot Free free tier

🤖 Coding agents & CLIs · no card · not offered in Russia, Iran, Belarus and 2 more places · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-11-01 · github.com · back to the whole list

What you get

Free Copilot plan for individual developers in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio and CLI; completions, limited chat and agent usage

Free models

The vendor does not identify which models the free offer includes. See Limits for the published conditions.

Limits, in the vendor’s words

2,000 completions/month per account

Chat and agent usage: Monthly credits allowance: amount not published per account

Chat and agent features spend GitHub AI Credits, whose Free amount is unpublished. Model selection is automatic on Copilot Free and Student. Free is available only to individual developers who do not receive Copilot through an organization or enterprise.

Where it is offered

Not offered in Russia, Iran, Belarus, Cuba and North Korea (source, read 2026-09-26). That leaves out 2.6% of the developers GitHub counts, beyond the countries under comprehensive US embargo (Innovation Graph, 2026 Q1). In the vendor’s words: “These destinations currently include Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Belarus, and the following regions of Ukraine: Crimea/Sevastopol and the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk”.

What happens to what you send

What you send may be used to train or improve models unless you turn that off. In the vendor’s words: “You can opt-out from allowing your data to be used for training in your personal settings for GitHub Copilot.” (source).

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