Amazon Q Developer vs GitHub Copilot
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Amazon Q Developer
AWS's sunsetting AI coding assistant — Kiro is the successor
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GitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.5 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free — unlimited completions + 50 agent chat interactions/month | Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers) |
| Paid from | Pro $19/user/month (unlimited agent interactions, IP indemnification) | Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 4.7m+ paid subscribers |
| Founded | 2024 | — |
| Maker | Amazon | Microsoft |
| Verdict | Amazon Q Developer is on the clock: AWS closed new signups on May 15, 2026 and ends support for the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions on April 30, 2027, steering everyone toward Kiro, its spec-driven successor. Until th... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot remains the lowest-friction AI coding assistant: inline completions, chat, multi-file edits and an agent mode, native in VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub itself, with a choice of GPT, Cl... |
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