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Amazon Q vs GitHub CoPilot comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
1.7
Amazon Q enhances efficiency by saving time, reducing labor needs, and increasing deployment speed, though ROI wasn't universally measured.
Sentiment score
7.4
GitHub CoPilot enhances productivity, reduces costs by up to 40%, and improves ROI, especially for standardized tasks.
Overall, there is a lot of increase in the movement of moving things to production grade and building things that are production grade from earlier, and the number of people that are required to build that scale of applications has been drastically reduced.
Ai Research Enthusiast And Developer at ADP
This indicates that if we use it in the organization, we would be able to save money for the client and potentially require fewer employees.
Assoicate Consultant at ZS
A lot of time is saved using GitHub CoPilot because the PR review process used to take two to three days, but now it takes about two to three minutes to analyze the complete PR, get context, and give the rating.
Ai Research Enthusiast And Developer at ADP
Efficiencies with GitHub CoPilot have improved by 30%, which means a quicker go-to market and a simplified way of documenting technical designs.
Vice President of Products at C5i
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
2.0
Amazon Q's customer service is generally effective, with professionalism and expertise but some integration and communication challenges persist.
Sentiment score
4.9
GitHub CoPilot's support is generally satisfactory, with valuable community support but needs improvement in onboarding and response times.
Anytime you have an issue, you reach out to them, and they are willing to understand the issue you're facing.
Site reliability engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
All queries were resolved promptly, and questions about capabilities were answered clearly.
Engineering Lead at Lloyds Banking Group PLC
The customer support for Amazon Q is fantastic because the moment I encounter some issues in Amazon Q, I reach out to them and they help me in figuring it out, and they help me in rapidly closing that issue.
Ai Research Enthusiast And Developer at ADP
With a large user base, it covers a wide range of questions, from simple to complex, ensuring that answers are available.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Whenever there's a downtime of GitHub CoPilot or any issue with login or plugins, customer support is good enough to solve those issues.
Ai Research Enthusiast And Developer at ADP
GitHub technical support is excellent.
AppSec engineer at EastNets Holding Ltd.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
3.3
Amazon Q excels in scalability, integrates with AWS, but requires improved traffic handling; users appreciate efficiency and reduced overhead.
Sentiment score
7.0
GitHub CoPilot is praised for its scalability, effective user support, and ease of license acquisition, with room for enterprise enhancements.
For improvement, I suggest enhancing admin control or original level settings, utilizing analytics, and sharing prompt or response history.
Student at Sharda University
The model is not able to give answers properly with the traffic it is facing, so it needs to be scaled more.
Cloud Architect at Acmegrade
Then we increased it with four types of data sources.
Associate Software Engineer
It cannot be fully depended on to build every component and run a large enterprise application without significant human intervention.
Vice President of Products at C5i
Multiple people using it get a lot of immediate and exact responses useful for fixing issues, debugging, automating, or enhancing features.
Ai Research Enthusiast And Developer at ADP
With an enterprise plan, there are no limitations, so scalability is not an issue.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
4.2
Amazon Q is stable and reliable but can improve memory handling and offline performance; reliant on stable internet.
Sentiment score
7.4
GitHub CoPilot is largely stable with minor glitches, mostly consistent but occasionally disrupted, especially in complex setups.
The service is very stable.
Site reliability engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It maintains consistent performance, rarely crashing or lagging, even during prolonged use.
Student at Sharda University
The accuracy of that particular model provides high assurance that the result will be as the user wants it to be.
Cloud Architect at Acmegrade
In most cases, it does not generate irrelevant code.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
At certain times, you may not get the required response and realize it's either down or not responding for other reasons.
Vice President of Products at C5i
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon Q needs improved IDE integration, longer sessions, better prompt handling, and enhanced multi-data reasoning for overall efficiency.
GitHub CoPilot needs improvements in accuracy, context awareness, language support, IDE integration, UI features, and automation capabilities.
The knowledge management integration, which is crucial in today's contact center business, should be more prominent in Amazon Connect.
Customer Success Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Out of 100%, Amazon Q will complete 80% and the remaining 20% of the errors, including build or runtime errors, you have to resolve manually.
Assistant consultant at Tata Consultancy
The moment I hit the context length of the window, it would ask me to clear the complete context, and it would lose the complete context of the chat that I had previously.
Ai Research Enthusiast And Developer at ADP
Users should not be 100% reliant on AI or any LLMs. They need to work on it and they need to review the code.
QA Manager at Synechron
There is excellent support across various code editors like JetBrains, VS Code, and NeoGen.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
To understand our application better and learn from it would likely require access to the entire codebase, which a lot of companies may not allow.
Vice President of Products at C5i
 

Setup Cost

Amazon Q's integration benefits AWS users with productivity gains, despite high pricing compared to ChatGPT's premium version.
GitHub CoPilot offers free individual access and enterprise plans from $18-$20 per user, with negotiable pricing.
The Pro plan seems to be a bit expensive.
Assoicate Consultant at ZS
I was able to migrate the whole applications of my organization into Java 17, which is the latest version, in about ninety days.
Ai Research Enthusiast And Developer at ADP
They recently made Copilot free to use up to a certain limit, which is a positive change.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The kind of use that I am having with a $20-30 license, I think it is really of really good help.
QA Manager at Synechron
 

Valuable Features

Amazon Q is praised for seamless AWS integration, efficient cloud management, robust security, and user-friendly real-time syncing.
GitHub CoPilot enhances productivity with context-aware suggestions, multi-language support, and seamless IDE integration for efficient coding.
Amazon Q helps boost productivity, enabling the delivery of quality and value to customers.
Site reliability engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The recent Agentic coding feature allows the tool to implement significant changes automatically, making it easier to maintain code by committing and pushing changes seamlessly while allowing for an easy undo option.
Senior Quality Engineer Data at Epsilon
The best feature of Amazon Q is that it has knowledge of my entire code base, entire repository, and its flows.
Software Developer at Enorvision AIML limited
It is certainly time-saving; we have seen upwards of around 30% plus of time savings using GitHub CoPilot.
Vice President of Products at C5i
Things which were taking like two days are now finished within half an hour.
QA Manager at Synechron
Context awareness, inline autocompletions, rapid code prototyping, Agentic mode, and availability in multiple language IDEs are the best features of GitHub CoPilot.
Ai Research Enthusiast And Developer at ADP
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Q
Ranking in AI Code Assistants
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
3.7
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
GitHub CoPilot
Ranking in AI Code Assistants
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
Rapid Application Development Software (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the AI Code Assistants category, the mindshare of Amazon Q is 7.9%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GitHub CoPilot is 7.3%, up from 6.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Code Assistants Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Amazon Q7.9%
GitHub CoPilot7.3%
Other84.8%
AI Code Assistants
 

Featured Reviews

Uday Boya - PeerSpot reviewer
Ai Research Enthusiast And Developer at ADP
Daily AI assistance has transformed debugging, automation, and rapid project delivery
One improvement for Amazon Q is that I use it in Visual Studio, and in Visual Studio, I am not given an option to upload an image in Amazon Q. Also, this is one part of it. The second part is the context window of Amazon Q is very less compared to other GenAI tools. The moment I would be in a deep research or deep development or deep debugging mode in Amazon Q, the moment I hit the context length of the window, it would ask me to clear the complete context, and it would lose the complete context of the chat that I had previously. The two major pain points are that I have Amazon Q in Visual Studio, but I am not given an option to upload an image as a reference in Amazon Q. The second part is the context window is so limited. The moment I deep dive into some discussion in terms of development or debugging or automation, I hit a context length of the window, and the moment I hit it, it would lose the complete context. It has an option of summarizing the complete context and having it as a memory, but it would not be sufficient because I would have given a lot of details in the chat by that time. I have mentioned the two points earlier, so those are the only two points that I have in mind for improvements needed for Amazon Q.
TusharShankar - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at Synechron
AI coding assistant has transformed development speed and supports learning new languages
Any technology comes with two things, or rather anything in this world has both sides, good and bad. LLMs also have the same thing. The bad part is for a person who is 100% dependent on AI because they won't be able to learn more if they are 100% dependent on that. The main thing is that there has to be restraint from our side. I won't say it is from the tool side, but from our side, we need to learn and we need to work on it. We need to review the code. That is one thing that we need to do from our end. From a technology perspective, it is designed to help us out, and it is totally on our side of thinking about how exactly we are going to use that. There is not any area for improvement from the tool side, but it is from the users altogether. Users should not be 100% reliant on AI or any LLMs. They need to work on it and they need to review the code.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise15
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Q?
While using Amazon Q, I faced some challenges, such as navigating the interface initially.
What is your primary use case for Amazon Q?
I have completed a project where the company required testing R&D on Kubernetes. I tested it locally by installing MiniKube, Kubernetes, and all the containers. I configured the Kubernetes MCB ...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Q?
I find Amazon Q easy to use, and I believe anyone can use it without needing extensive technical knowledge. I would definitely recommend Amazon Q to other people; it's a great tool. I find it quite...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitHub CoPilot?
For now, I think it is okay. It is not that expensive. The kind of use that I am having with a $20-30 license, I think it is really of really good help.
What needs improvement with GitHub CoPilot?
Any technology comes with two things, or rather anything in this world has both sides, good and bad. LLMs also have the same thing. The bad part is for a person who is 100% dependent on AI because ...
 

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