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GitHub Copilot B | Cursor S | Perplexity S | Gemini A | |
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| Tagline | Microsoft/GitHub's autocomplete. Deep VS Code + JetBrains integration. | VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work. | AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater. | Google's answer. Best integrated with Workspace + free for a lot. |
| Category | coding | coding | research | chat |
| Pricing | Free (limited) + $10/mo Pro + $19/mo Business | Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business | Free + $20/mo Pro | Free + $20/mo Advanced (bundled with 2TB Drive) |
| Best for | Teams with GitHub already. Devs who don't want to change IDEs. | Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code. | Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds. | Anyone already on Google, research tasks, summarizing long documents. |
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| Kai's verdict | B-tier. Solid for autocomplete but the category moved past it. Pick Cursor unless you can't. | S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day. | S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week. | A-tier. The Deep Research feature is genuinely useful. Don't sleep on it if you're already paying Google. |
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