Amazon Q Developer vs GitHub Copilot

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

GitHub Copilot

$120/yr

47% less than Amazon Q Developer

Who has a free plan
  • Amazon Q Developerhas a free plan
  • GitHub Copilothas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

GitHub Copilot

With trade-offs

weekend

On price, GitHub Copilot wins. If you would rather build it, GitHub Copilot is the simplest to rebuild.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONAmazon Q DeveloperDevelopmentGitHub CopilotDevelopment
Monthly billing$19/moPro$10/moPro
Per year$228/yr$120/yr
Billing modelPer personFlat subscription
Free tier50 agentic requests/chat interactions/month, 25 AWS account/resource-context queries/account/month and 1,000 Java transformation lines/month2,000 code completions/month; AI-credit quantity is not publicly stated; automatic model selection only
Additional costsJava transformation above the pooled 4,000 lines per Pro user/month costs $0.003/line; using an activating Pro feature starts recurring billing; there is no final-month proration after cancellation.Extra AI credits cost $0.01 each and unused monthly credits do not roll over; Copilot code review can also consume separately billed GitHub Actions minutes.
Can you rebuild it?Worth subscribingnot a true replacement; consolation build in one to two daysWith trade-offsweekend
Free alternatives—+2
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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