# GitHub Copilot

Copilot is an AI coding agent from GitHub, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, that helps write, understand and ship software. It covers code completion, chat, agent mode, code review and cloud coding tasks. It runs in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Neovim, the command line, GitHub.com and mobile. It is delivered as a hosted cloud service.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/copilot · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Company type: Division of Microsoft
- Deployment: Hosted cloud service; no self-hosted option found
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type 1, ISO/IEC 27001

## Products

- Copilot code completion and chat: AI code completion and chat inside supported IDEs and GitHub.
- Copilot coding agent: Runs tasks in a repository and opens pull requests.
- Copilot code review: AI review of pull requests, with pull request summaries generated for reviewers.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Coding Assistants | 1 of 46 | 76.5 | 70 |
| CRM | 17 of 39 | 3.7 | 7 |
| Low-Code & No-Code | 21 of 43 | 4.8 | 6 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 79.1 | 92.6% |
| google_ai_mode | 86.8 | 96.3% |
| perplexity | 63.7 | 70.4% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “GitHub Copilot AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/copilot, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).