[anoncow]

This will impact copilot pricing. I will be keeping my copilot subscription (since it is pretty cheap), but I hope and expect there to be some good competition here.

With copilot being embedded in all office software in the near future, MS may as well make GH copilot free. Interesting times!

[RhodesianHunter]

I'm all for them keeping the pricing as-is and competing on quality.

[evilduck]

Copilot for business and CodeWhisperer Professional are the same price ($20/user/month).

While CodeWhisperer offers a free tier which may help individuals or pressure Copilot to lower personal account priced, AWS hasn't priced this very competitively for enterprise while their tool is still performing worse.

[acdha]

I wouldn’t take “performing worse” as a given without in-depth testing. I could see enterprises making calls like that based on things like the security checks or attribution for OSS over support for more languages.

[evilduck]

I'm only speaking from personal experience and mostly with Typescript for both but CodeWhisperer feels like it has more lag before offering a completion and the completions it offers are often worse. It duplicates lines that already exist, it adds inappropriate indentions, where Copilot very helpfully finishes your line and stops, CodeWhisperer tries to add three more lines entirely and you reject it far more often. It's not worthless in this current stage, but it's not something to strongly praise either.

The security checks and OSS attributions feel very much like what "enterprise" software does when they know they can't compete, they tick boxes instead.

[shostack]

As a hobbyist programmer trying to learn, but with limited free time to code, I really want a copilot free tier for personal use. I really hope this happens.

[lostmsu]

Contribute to open source. They give free licenses to contributes of large enough GitHub projects.

[sebzim4500]

Office costs money though, vs code doesn't.

[ukuina]

Did they announce Office Copilot pricing already?

[sebzim4500]

I assumed it would be included in office 365 but I don't think they explicitly said it.

I would guess that after a few years if everyone starts depending on this technology they would increase the price.