GitHub · 1 category · RankedGitHub Copilot
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding assistants | Developer platform | 67% | 1 of 46 | 13% | 70 | endorsed leader |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“GitHub Copilot (Best Value for Money) ... Codeium's free tier or GitHub Copilot's $10/month plan offer the best balance of cost and functionality.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd typically recommend starting with GitHub Copilot (if you're GitHub-centric) or Codeium (for cost efficiency and privacy options) as pilots” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI coding · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Start with GitHub Copilot if you're unsure. It's the safest, most widely adopted choice with the strongest enterprise security posture.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI coding · direct prompt · first choice
“For most mid-market B2B companies: Start with GitHub Copilot Business ($19/user/month). It offers the best balance of enterprise compliance” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI coding · direct prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“You should generally avoid standard free-tier or public instances of major AI coding assistants (such as GitHub Copilot standard, Cursor, or Windsurf)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · hard negative
“Prompt injection vulnerabilities leading to arbitrary command execution (e.g., CVE-2025-53773)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI coding · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Free tiers of Copilot/Windsurf for proprietary code” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · hard negative
“GitHub Copilot cloud agent can work across repository context and GitHub warns about security risks, injection risks, and public-code matches... you should be cautious with sensitive repos.” GPT-5.4 mini · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 164 of the 196 answers that named GitHub Copilot and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
401 of the 401 domain citations in answers naming GitHub Copilot came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as GitHub Copilot
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