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Comparing as AI Code Generation & Autocomplete
Supermaven vs GitHub Copilot

Supermaven

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Detailed Comparison

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Pricing
FreemiumSupermaven operated a Freemium model during its active life (Feb 2024 – Nov 2025). The Free tier provided fast inline code completions with a 300,000-token context window, compatible with VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and Neovim — with no trial expiry. Pro was priced at $10/month (or $99/year), unlocking the 1 million token context window, access to Supermaven's largest Babble model, coding style adaptation, and $5/month in Supermaven Chat credits with a 30-day free trial. Team plans were also $10/user/month and added centralized billing and user management for companies. Supermaven was acquired by Cursor in November 2024. All paying subscribers were fully refunded in November 2025 when the standalone product was sunset. Free autocomplete inference was extended for existing Neovim and JetBrains users as a courtesy. The product is no longer available for new signups — Cursor is the recommended migration path.
FreemiumGitHub Copilot Free costs $0/user/month and includes 2,000 completions per month, access to models like Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 mini, Copilot CLI, and community support. Pro costs $10/user/month and adds cloud agent and code review access, unlimited code completion and next-edit suggestions, access to third-party agents like Claude Code and Codex, model selection, and $15 in monthly total credits. Pro+ costs $39/user/month and adds premium models including Opus, audit logs, 4x+ more included usage than Pro, and $70 in monthly credits. Max costs $100/user/month for sustained high-volume agent workflows, with priority access to new models, 2.9x+ more usage than Pro+, and $200 in monthly credits. For businesses, the Business plan costs $19/user/month with unlimited code completion, cloud agent and code review access, a broad model catalog, access control, budget governance, and IP indemnity. Enterprise costs $39/user/month with everything in Business plus priority access to new models and 2x the included usage. GitHub AI Credits (1 credit = $0.01) meter usage for chat, agents, CLI, Spaces, and Spark beyond the included monthly allowance.
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AI Coding Assistants
Summary
The fastest AI copilot with a 1 million token context window
AI pair programmer for code completion, chat, and autonomous coding agents
Supermaven

Supermaven Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Fastest inline code completions of any tool at launch — sub-250ms latency beats Copilot by 3x
  • 1 million token context window gives it codebase-wide awareness without slow retrieval
  • Generous always-free tier with no expiry for solo developers
  • Founded by Tabnine creator — deep domain expertise in efficient code completion models
  • Lightweight extension model — no new IDE required, works inside existing editors
  • Coding style learning personalizes suggestions over time

Cons

  • Product sunset in November 2025 after Cursor acquisition — no longer available for new signups
  • No agentic or multi-file editing capabilities (completions and chat only)
  • Chat credits limited on Pro tier ($5/month) with overage charges
  • Extension API limitations in VS Code/JetBrains constrained more advanced features
  • 7-day code data retention limit on free tier raised some privacy concerns for teams
GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Free tier available with no credit card required to get started
  • Deep native integration with GitHub, VS Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains IDEs
  • Autonomous coding agent can work issues end-to-end toward a pull request
  • Broad model choice, including Claude, GPT, and third-party agents like Codex
  • IP indemnification available for unmodified suggestions with filtering enabled
  • Backed by extensive enterprise governance, audit logs, and budget controls

Cons

  • Free tier is capped at 2,000 completions and 50 chat requests per month
  • Premium models like Opus require the pricier Pro+ or Max plans
  • Suggestions can occasionally match public code, raising minor copyright considerations
  • Quality varies by programming language depending on training data representation
  • Enterprise-grade codebase indexing and org-wide chat require the costlier Enterprise plan