Top 9 GitHub Copilot alternatives to try in 2022 (free and paid)

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GitHub Copilot

Suppose you’re a software developer that hasn’t heard of Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot. In that case, I am curious about the amenities in the distant cave you must have been vacationing in for over a year. You have probably used or at least heard of Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot as a software developer. The crowdsourced code completion plugin has made waves throughout the global dev community since its launch in July 2021.

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TabNine

One of the first code completion tools on the market is Tabnine (once known as Codota). Tabnine code completion plugin supports all the most popular languages, libraries, and frameworks in your favorite IDEs. Tabnine AI models are only trained on permissive open source licensed code, so your code will always remain yours.

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3

Captain Stack

Developers and Stackoverflow are like human resources managers and LinkedIn. We need our platforms and tools. Captain Stack is an open-source VSCode plugin that is a bit of both. Inspired by Copilot, Captain Stack is a code suggestion tool that uses Google instead of AI. It sends your search query to Google, retrieves StackOverflow and Github Gist answers, and auto-completes them.

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4

GPT-Code-Clippy

Another open source alternative to Copilot is GPT-Code-Clippy. According to the description, GPT-Code-Clippy (GPT-CC) is an open source version of GitHub Copilot, a language model (based on GPT-3, called GPT-Codex) that is fine-tuned on publicly available code from GitHub.

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5

Second Mate

Second Mate is another open-source imitation of GitHub Copilot. It uses EleutherAI GPT-Neo-2.7B (via Huggingface Model Hub) for Emacs. It is a much smaller model, so it will likely not be as effective as Copilot or other alternatives. On the other hand, you can run it on Emacs, and it’s free.

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6

Visual Studio IntelliCode

IntelliCode is an experimental AI coding assistant trained on a subset of GitHub projects, a Microsoft product available for Visual Studio only. One of the more attractive features of IntelliCode is team completion. Team completion may prove beneficial for organizations with a Microsoft-based architecture and developers accustomed to Visual Studio in an age of remote working. However, if you’re looking for a cross-IDE solution that enables team autocompletion training, Tabnine supports this feature for all popular IDEs out there.

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7

Amazon CodeWhisperer

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9

Kite

The last solution in our list is worthy of mention because it is one of the more flexible and user-friendly solutions offered for free. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, Kite is unavailable for download and is not maintained.

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