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 AI coding assistant, closed to new users and sunsetting in 2027
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GitHub Copilot
GitHub's coding assistant and agents, now billed in AI Credits
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.5 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium |
| Free tier | Closed to new users since 15 May 2026; existing Builder ID users keep 50 agentic requests/mo and 1,000 lines/mo of Java upgrades | Copilot Free: 2,000 inline suggestions a month plus limited chat and agent usage, no card required; free Student plan for verified students |
| Paid from | Pro $19/user/mo, existing subscriptions only; new sign-ups closed 15 May 2026, EOS 30 Apr 2027 | $10/month (Pro, 1,500 AI Credits); Business $19 and Enterprise $39 per seat a month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 4.7m+ paid subscribers |
| Founded | 2024 | 2021 |
| Maker | Amazon (Amazon Web Services, Inc.) | GitHub, Inc. |
| Verdict | Amazon Q Developer is no longer something to adopt: AWS closed it to new sign-ups in May 2026 and ends the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions on 30 April 2027, steering developers to Kiro, where the newest coding models... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot is still the lowest-friction way to add AI to the whole workflow: completions in almost every major editor, agents that work from issues and open pull requests, reviews on github.com,... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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