GitHub Copilot vs JetBrains AI

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan: JetBrains AI — $8.33/mo vs $10/mo for GitHub Copilot
Free plan: Both have one
Best fit: GitHub Copilot: Teams standardising on one assistant across mixed IDEs and languages · JetBrains AI: Developers on IntelliJ, PyCharm, GoLand or Rider who want AI inside the IDE they already use
Platforms: GitHub Copilot: VS Code extension, Web, macOS, Windows, Linux · JetBrains AI: macOS, Windows, Linux
Trust score: About even — GitHub Copilot 94, JetBrains AI 96

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

GitHub CopilotInline completions, chat and coding agents across the major IDEs

JetBrains AIAI Assistant and the Junie coding agent inside JetBrains IDEs, with a free tier and dollar-denominated credits

Side by side

Fact	GitHub Copilot	JetBrains AI
Category	AI Coding Assistants	AI Coding Assistants
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$10/mo	$8.33/mo
Trust score	94 / 100	96 / 100
Platforms	VS Code extension, Web, macOS, Windows, Linux	macOS, Windows, Linux
Company	GitHub, Inc.	JetBrains N.V.
Launched	2021	—
Last verified	Sep 6, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

GitHub Copilot

Still the least disruptive way to put an assistant in front of a whole engineering org, but the credit meter means the $10 tier is no longer a flat-rate promise once anyone starts using agents seriously.

Pros

Broadest IDE coverage of any assistant: VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Neovim, Xcode
Free tier is real and needs no card, which makes org-wide trials trivial
Unlimited completions on every paid tier, so the meter only touches the expensive work

Cons

Four individual tiers from $10 to $100 make it hard to predict what a team actually costs
Credits are consumed by premium models at very different rates, so budgeting is guesswork
IP indemnity is Business-and-up only, which is often the deciding factor for enterprises

JetBrains AI

If you already pay for a JetBrains IDE, this is the cheapest way to get a competent assistant and an agent that understand the IDE's own refactorings and inspections, and All Products Pack holders get AI Pro for nothing. Budget by credits, not by seat: the $10 tier is ten dollars of model usage a month, which an agent session can burn in an afternoon, so heavy Junie users end up on Ultimate or bringing their own key.

Pros

Same feature set on every tier, with the paid plans adding cloud quota rather than gating features
Credits are denominated in dollars, so the cost of a model call is legible
Junie runs in the IDE and as a CLI with GitHub and GitLab, and accepts your own model keys
AI Pro bundled free with All Products Pack, dotUltimate and DataSpell

Cons

AI Free's 3 credits per 30 days is a demo allowance, not a working plan
Ten dollars of credit a month on AI Pro runs out fast with agent workflows
AI Free is not available in Android Studio or the free Community editions
Product naming is in flux: the old JetBrains AI address now points to the Air alpha

Which one fits

Choose GitHub Copilot if you need

Teams standardising on one assistant across mixed IDEs and languages
Organisations that need IP indemnity and admin policy control
Developers who mostly want completions and occasional chat

Choose JetBrains AI if you need

Developers on IntelliJ, PyCharm, GoLand or Rider who want AI inside the IDE they already use
All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscribers, who get AI Pro included
Teams that want to bring their own model provider to an IDE-native agent