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Prices for United States, before sales tax Data release 2026.10.16-3, Oct 16, 2026 Rules 2.1.0
Comparing ChatGPT Plus and Copilot Pro: individual plans, prices for United States. Change the plans below to compare any other two.
This page is for developers deciding between ChatGPT Plus ($20 a month), OpenAI's general assistant that includes the Codex coding agent, and GitHub Copilot Pro ($10 a month), a coding assistant that works in many editors, on the command line and on GitHub. We compare these two plans because each is the lowest plan of its product that documents both an agent working in the cloud and pull request review. We also cover ChatGPT Free, Go and Pro, and Copilot Free, Pro+ and Max, where they change the choice.
Everything here comes from OpenAI's and GitHub's own pricing, help and documentation pages, checked on October 12 and 13, 2026. Where a company does not say something, we say it is not documented, which is not the same as saying it is missing. We have not tested either tool yet, so nothing below is a claim about the quality of their code or their reviews.
$20 a month
$10 a month
GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, legacy models; GPT-6 Astra limited in Work/Codex.
'A selection of models': Claude Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5, GPT-5.6 Terra/Luna, GPT-6 Luna, GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7, Kimi K3, MAI-Code. Not included: Claude Opus/Fable, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6/6.1 Sol.
GPT Instant 54K (~40 pages); Reasoning 256K (~320 pages).
Optional 1 million token context for supported models, in VS Code and Copilot CLI only; uses more AI credits. Default context size per model not stated on the pages checked.
Pricing page model list for every individual plan shows only OpenAI models (GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, GPT-5.6 family, legacy). No models from other AI companies are listed.
Choose models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Moonshot (Kimi) and Microsoft (plan decides which); auto selection also offered with a 10% model-cost discount.
ChatGPT chat assistant for everyday text chats (writing, questions, everyday tasks); pricing table lists everyday text chats as Unlimited* on Free, Go, Plus and Pro, subject to abuse guardrails. Plus adds advanced reasoning models, projects, scheduled tasks, custom GPTs.
Docs scope Copilot to software work: code, repositories and development concepts. General questions shown are programming-related; not positioned as an everyday writing assistant.
Search the web; pricing table marks Search on all plans.
Optional Bing web search for Copilot Chat (off by default; enable 'Copilot access to Bing' in settings). Setting listed for Free, Pro, Pro+ and Max. Display of source links not confirmed on the page fetched.
Expanded deep research.
No research-report mode documented; cloud agent can do 'deep research of a repository' (code research only, paid plans).
Expanded messages and uploads.
Attach images and PDFs to chat prompts (GitHub.com, IDE, CLI) when using a model that supports image input.
Data analysis Yes; interactive tables and charts.
Spreadsheet/CSV analysis with computation not documented as a feature.
Codex included; limited GPT-6 Astra usage, optional credits.
Agent mode in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode, plus Copilot CLI; consumes AI credits.
Codex IDE extension (signs in with ChatGPT). Editors: VS Code, VS Code Insiders, Cursor, Windsurf (Codex extension); Xcode and JetBrains IDEs via their own integrations. Usage shared with Codex/ChatGPT Work limits.
Extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Eclipse, Neovim, Zed, SQL Server Management Studio and Raycast; features vary by IDE (see feature matrix).
Codex IDE extension is documented as an agent beside your code (chat with editor context, review diffs, delegate to cloud). No official page fetched documents inline as-you-type completions, and none says they are absent.
Inline suggestions and next edit suggestions are unlimited and do not consume AI credits.
Codex Cloud runs coding tasks on repos in OpenAI-managed cloud environments (continues while your computer sleeps); you can commit or open a pull request when ready. Eligible Plus, subject to rollout; usage counts toward plan limits.
Copilot cloud agent researches a repo, plans and codes in a cloud dev environment and opens a PR; GitHub-hosted repos only, one repo/branch/PR per task, 59-minute session limit; uses AI credits.
Codex code review on GitHub PRs: comment @codex review or turn on automatic reviews; posts a GitHub review flagging P0/P1 issues; optional Security Review (research preview). Pricing matrix marks GitHub PR reviews available for Plus. Uses plan usage.
Copilot code review on GitHub PRs (manual or automatic for PRs you create) and file-diff review in editors; ~$0.05-$1 (Lite) or $0.25-$5 (Balanced) of AI credits per review.
Image generation incl. 'with Thinking'.
Image generation not documented for Copilot.
No video generation listed on pricing page; Sora web/app discontinued.
Video generation not documented for Copilot.
Voice Expanded; voice with video.
Only voice input (dictating prompts) is documented for Copilot CLI; no spoken two-way conversation documented.
ChatGPT Images (all tiers) edits images you upload or it made: describe the change, or select an area in the editor to add, remove or update parts. Plus also gets Images with thinking.
No GitHub page documents image generation or editing in Copilot; the plans page lists image input only.
ChatGPT Images can follow an instruction to make an image's background transparent, and you can upload an existing image to edit. No separate background remover tool.
No GitHub page documents background removal in Copilot.
OpenAI says ChatGPT Images can follow instructions to add text; its poster template tip says to describe any text you want included.
No GitHub page documents image generation in Copilot, so text in images is not described.
Images has templates by category, named as a starting point for a poster or logo (Images > Templates). Templates are not yet in Work mode.
No GitHub page documents a logo maker in Copilot.
No OpenAI page documents SVG or other vector output for ChatGPT Images; downloads are described only as saving the image.
No GitHub page documents vector or SVG export as a Copilot feature.
No OpenAI page documents upscaling in ChatGPT Images. The mobile image controls include Resize, which is not described as upscaling.
No GitHub page documents image upscaling in Copilot.
No video tool on any ChatGPT plan: the pricing comparison has no video row, and Sora (OpenAI's video app, which animated images) is closed.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.
No video editing on any ChatGPT plan: the pricing comparison lists no video feature and the Sora app, OpenAI's only video tool, is closed.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.
No OpenAI page documents a digital presenter feature for ChatGPT; OpenAI has no video product since Sora closed.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.
No OpenAI page documents lip sync for ChatGPT; OpenAI has no video product since Sora closed.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.
No OpenAI page documents automatic video captions in ChatGPT.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.
No OpenAI page documents turning long videos into short clips in ChatGPT.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.
ChatGPT makes no video on this plan (no video row on the pricing page, Sora closed), so a video watermark does not apply.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant; its plans page lists no video features and no bundled video app.
ChatGPT Sites (public beta): describe a website, app or game in Work (web) or Work or Codex (desktop app) and ChatGPT builds it, with a private preview. Building or editing counts toward Codex usage.
GitHub Spark, Copilot's app builder, is 'Not included' on this plan in the plans docs, and it stopped accepting new users and apps on August 4, 2026. GitHub points builders to Copilot in VS Code, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, which are coding agents.
Sites publishes to a ChatGPT-hosted URL; you choose selected people, workspace or public. No fixed limit on the number of Sites on Plus or Pro, but usage and storage limits apply; hosting usage is separate from Codex usage.
No hosting for new apps: GitHub Spark, which deployed apps, is not included on this plan and closed to new apps on August 4, 2026.
Sites lets you rename the ChatGPT-hosted URL or connect an apex domain or subdomain you own via DNS records (Site settings > Add domain). Sites does not register domains. Help says 'Where custom domains are available'.
No Copilot app hosting on this plan (GitHub Spark is not included and closed to new apps), so there is no domain to set.
Sites offers D1 relational database (10 GB per site) and R2 object storage for files, plus 'Sign in with ChatGPT' so visitors can save their work.
No Copilot app builder on this plan (GitHub Spark is not included and closed to new apps), so no built-in app storage.
Sites can publish a compatible local project from the ChatGPT desktop app or Codex; for a local source project each saved version is tied to its Git commit. No download of a web-built Site's code is documented.
Copilot writes code into your own files and repos: agent mode edits your local project and Copilot cloud agent works in your GitHub repositories. Spark users could export an app to a repository until August 31, 2026.
No official ChatGPT page found that describes making songs with vocals; help center search for music returned no such feature.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not generate music.
No official ChatGPT page found that describes instrumental music generation.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not generate music.
No official ChatGPT page describes stem downloads; no music generation feature documented.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant with no music or audio output to split into stems.
ChatGPT Voice speaks ChatGPT's own replies in chosen voices, but no official page describes reading text you supply as a downloadable voiceover.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not produce voiceovers from text.
No official ChatGPT page describes copying a voice; Voice offers a fixed set of preset voices (Arbor, Breeze, Cove, and others).
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not create synthetic voices.
No official page describes translating and re-voicing audio or video files. Voice can be asked to speak another language in a live chat only.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not translate or re-voice audio or video.
No official ChatGPT page describes generating sound effects.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not generate audio.
Audio uploads (WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC and more, up to 512 MB) can be transcribed; transcripts may contain errors. Record on the macOS app also live-transcribes sessions up to 4 hours.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not transcribe recordings or audio and video files.
ChatGPT Record (macOS desktop app) records meetings or voice notes, transcribes, and writes summary notes as a canvas; up to 4 hours per session. Calendar auto-join works with Google Meet links only.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not join or record meetings.
Dictation (microphone icon) turns speech into editable text inside ChatGPT's own message box only; no official page describes typing into other apps.
GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant and does not offer system-wide dictation into other apps.
Projects, shared projects, scheduled tasks.
Copilot Spaces: collect repos, files and other sources as shared context for Copilot Chat on GitHub (and in IDE via GitHub MCP server); share privately, with users or publicly. Plus repository/personal custom instructions.
Custom GPTs (use); new GPT creation not available on personal accounts per Free FAQ.
Custom agents: Markdown agent profiles (.github/agents/NAME.md) with prompt, tools and MCP servers; usable in cloud agent, CLI, VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, Xcode. Plans page ticks 'Custom instructions and agents' on all plans.
Expanded memory and context.
Copilot Memory (public preview): stores repository facts and personal preferences across sessions, validated against code; unused entries deleted after 28 days; you can view/delete your preferences.
Plugins; apps connecting to internal tools; developer mode (beta).
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integration on all individual plans; GitHub MCP Server; cloud agent integrations with Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear, Azure Boards (paid).
No ChatGPT add-on that works inside Gmail is documented; Gmail data reaches ChatGPT only through its own connectors and plugins.
GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Gmail.
No ChatGPT add-on that works inside Google Docs is documented; OpenAI lists add-ins for Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Google Sheets only.
GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Google Docs.
ChatGPT for Google Sheets add-on: build, analyze and update sheets inside Sheets. Pricing table: Yes for Plus.
GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Google Sheets.
ChatGPT for Word add-in: draft, edit and format inside Word. Pricing table: Yes for Plus.
GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Word.
ChatGPT for Excel add-in: build, analyze and update sheets inside Excel. Pricing table: Yes for Plus.
GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Excel.
ChatGPT for PowerPoint add-in: create and edit slides inside PowerPoint. Pricing table: Yes for Plus.
GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside PowerPoint.
No ChatGPT add-in that works inside Outlook is documented; the Outlook Email plugin works from ChatGPT's own chat, which is a connector.
GitHub's Copilot plans and features docs list IDEs, GitHub.com, GitHub Mobile, Windows Terminal, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, plus Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear and Azure Boards integrations. No official GitHub page mentions an add-in inside Outlook.
ChatGPT Work agent on desktop, web and mobile; built-in browser.
Copilot agents work in your editor, terminal or a cloud dev environment; no browser- or computer-operating agent documented on the pages checked.
Default ON; turn off 'Improve the model for everyone' in Settings > Data controls.
Since Apr 24 2026 GitHub may train on Free/Pro/Pro+/Max interaction data by default; you can opt out anytime ('Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training' -> Disabled).
Request a copy of data from settings or Privacy Portal.
Plans FAQ only points to the GitHub Privacy Statement for access/deletion; no Copilot chat-history export documented.
No ads.
Advertising not mentioned on the pages checked.
OpenAI Terms of Use (individual services, all plans): you own the Output and OpenAI assigns its rights in it to you; Usage Policies still apply and Output may not be unique.
Not stated as a permission: GitHub's Terms (Section J) say GitHub does not claim ownership of Output and set no commercial-use ban; no page grants commercial use in so many words.
No cloud-storage bundle.
No cloud storage bundled with Copilot is documented.
Web, iOS, Android; desktop app on macOS and Windows.
IDE extensions (VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode, Eclipse, Neovim, Zed, SSMS, Raycast), Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app (desktop), github.com and GitHub Mobile. Docs: all plans include CLI and Copilot app.
ChatGPT is a general assistant. Plus includes image generation, expanded deep research, voice with video, projects, memory and extensions for Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Google Sheets; Codex is one part of it, sharing usage with ChatGPT Work. GitHub Copilot is a coding tool: GitHub's docs scope it to code, repositories and development concepts. Image and video generation are not documented for Copilot, and voice only as dictating prompts in Copilot CLI.
Copilot has extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Eclipse, Neovim, Zed, SQL Server Management Studio and Raycast, with agent mode in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode. GitHub says all plans include Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot desktop app, and it also works on github.com and GitHub Mobile. Features vary by editor.
On Plus, the Codex IDE extension signs in with your ChatGPT account and runs in VS Code, VS Code Insiders, Cursor and Windsurf; Xcode and JetBrains IDEs connect through their own integrations. Code completions as you type are not documented for Codex on any ChatGPT plan, and no page says they are absent, so they are not verified. Copilot Pro documents unlimited inline suggestions and next edit suggestions that use no AI credits.
Codex Cloud runs coding tasks in OpenAI-managed cloud environments, keeps going while your computer sleeps, and lets you commit or open a pull request when it is ready. On Plus it is subject to rollout and counts toward plan limits. Copilot's cloud agent researches a repo, plans, codes in a cloud development environment and opens a pull request. GitHub documents its limits: GitHub-hosted repos only, one repo, branch and pull request per task, and a 59-minute session limit.
For reviews on ChatGPT Plus, you comment @codex review on a GitHub pull request or turn on automatic reviews. Codex posts a GitHub review that flags P0 and P1 issues, with an optional Security Review in research preview. Copilot code review runs on GitHub pull requests, manually or automatically for pull requests you create, and on file diffs in editors. GitHub prices each review in credits: about $0.05 to $1 on the Lite setting, or $0.25 to $5 on Balanced. Documentation cannot show whether the code works or a review catches the bug that matters: give both the same task from the code spec kit, and open a pull request with the bug from the code repair kit to see what each review flags.
ChatGPT Plus lists only OpenAI models: GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, the GPT-5.6 family and legacy models. Context is 54K tokens for GPT Instant and 256K for reasoning models. OpenAI describes Codex on Plus as included, with optional credits, and does not give its limits as numbers on the pages we checked.
Copilot Pro lets you choose models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Moonshot and Microsoft, among them Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6 Luna, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Grok 4.7. Pro+ and Max add premium models such as Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-5.6 Sol. Pro includes 1,000 base plus 500 flex AI credits a month at $0.01 a credit (GitHub says the flex part may change). Chat, agent mode, code review, the cloud agent and the CLI use credits, and extra use is billed against a dollar budget you set. An optional 1 million token context works for supported models in VS Code and Copilot CLI only, and uses more credits.
ChatGPT Plus is $20 a month and Copilot Pro is $10 a month. Neither offers new subscribers a yearly price: OpenAI does not support annual billing for Go, Plus or Pro, and GitHub's annual Pro plans are legacy, kept by existing subscribers until they expire. Neither documents whether US sales tax is included, so treat both as before tax. Verified students get a separate free Copilot Student plan, and verified teachers and popular open source maintainers may get Pro free.
Both use your data for training by default, and both let you turn it off. In ChatGPT, switch off "Improve the model for everyone" under Settings, Data controls. For Copilot, GitHub says that since April 24, 2026 it may train on interaction data from Free, Pro, Pro+ and Max; set "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" to Disabled. You can request a copy of your ChatGPT data from settings or OpenAI's Privacy Portal. No Copilot chat history export is documented. Ads may appear on ChatGPT Free and Go, and Plus has none. Advertising is not mentioned on the Copilot pages we checked.
Copilot Free includes 2,000 completions a month and limited chat and agent use through an AI-credit allowance, with auto model selection only (GitHub's plans FAQ still says 50 chat requests a month, so the Free limit is not verified). It has no cloud agent, no pull request review and no Memory. ChatGPT Free and Go ($8 a month) list Codex as limited, but Codex Cloud is not included, pull request review is not stated, and OpenAI's pages conflict on whether the editor extension is included.
If you outgrow the $10 or $20 plan, Copilot Pro+ ($39 a month) gives 7,000 credits a month and premium models, and Copilot Max ($100) gives 20,000 credits with priority access to premium models. ChatGPT Pro costs $100, $200 or $500 a month, with expanded Codex use, longer sessions and, OpenAI says, currently no five-hour limit. All are billed monthly for new subscribers. For other coding tools, see coding.
Copilot Pro. GitHub documents unlimited inline suggestions and next edit suggestions that use no AI credits; Copilot Free includes 2,000 completions a month. OpenAI documents the Codex extension as an agent beside your code, and completions as you type are not documented on any ChatGPT plan.
Copilot Pro. GitHub lists extensions for all four, with agent mode in Visual Studio and Eclipse. OpenAI lists the Codex extension for VS Code, VS Code Insiders, Cursor and Windsurf, plus Xcode and JetBrains IDEs through their own integrations; these four editors are not on that list.
ChatGPT Plus. One $20 subscription covers chat, image generation, expanded deep research, voice and Codex. GitHub scopes Copilot to software work, and image generation is not documented for it.
Both document it. Copilot Pro's cloud agent opens a pull request on GitHub-hosted repos, one per task, within a 59-minute session, paid from credits. Codex Cloud on Plus is subject to rollout and uses plan limits. Give both the same task from our code spec kit before you choose.
Copilot Pro. It includes Claude Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash and OpenAI models such as GPT-6 Luna in one credit allowance. ChatGPT lists only OpenAI models on every plan.
ChatGPT Plus lists GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, with Astra limited in Work and Codex. On Copilot, GPT-6.1 Sol is listed from Pro+ at $39 a month, not on Pro at $10.
We have not run these tests for you unless a result above says so. Each kit gives you the same files, the same prompt and the same checks for both tools.
GitHub documents that Copilot Pro+ ($39 a month) and Max ($100 a month) can hand tasks to third-party agents, Claude and Codex. It is not listed for Copilot Pro. Whether this also needs a ChatGPT plan is not documented on the pages we checked.
Not verified. OpenAI documents the Codex extension as an agent that chats with editor context, reviews diffs and delegates to the cloud. No page we checked documents inline completions, and none says they are absent. Copilot documents them: 2,000 a month on Free, unlimited on Pro.
On ChatGPT Plus, Codex reviews use your plan usage, and OpenAI gives no per-review figure on the pages we checked. On Copilot Pro, each review uses AI credits, about $0.05 to $1 on Lite or $0.25 to $5 on Balanced, from 1,500 credits a month.
Yes. Copilot Pro includes GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-6 Luna and GPT-5.4. GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol are listed for Pro+ and Max. ChatGPT Plus lists GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, with Astra limited in Work and Codex.
Both do by default, and both let you opt out. In ChatGPT, turn off "Improve the model for everyone". For Copilot, GitHub may train on interaction data since April 24, 2026; set "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" to Disabled.
Neither company's documentation answers that, and we have not tested either yet. Run our code repair, code spec and code refactor kits in Codex and in Copilot with the same files and the same prompt, then check the results yourself.
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