This is not a contest. Keep Copilot. The question is what happens when half the team also runs a second agent, and the admin settings you relied on cover only the first one.
GitHub Copilot pricing and capabilities were read from the vendor’s own pages in October 2026. Products change. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
We write this section first. A comparison that only lists wins is an advert, and it reads like one.
Copilot is a coding tool and a good one. Fastpace writes no code and does not want to.
On Business and Enterprise an admin sets usage limits and can turn on the code referencing filter. That is genuine governance.
If you are standardised on GitHub, the procurement story is simple. Ours adds a vendor.
Adoption starts at zero. Ours starts with a Community tier, but the paid ladder begins sooner.
You write the rules once. A compiler emits them in each tool’s own enforcement format, so a mixed fleet gets one rule set.
Each AI call writes the model, the endpoint, the runtime, the training opt-out and hashes of the prompt and the reply. Hashes, not text.
Each entry carries a hash of the one before it, so editing an old line breaks every line after it. One command walks the chain.
Trailers on the commit point back at the run receipt, so a diff can be traced to the model and the policy behind it.
The same ten questions appear on every Fastpace comparison, so the pages can be read against each other. A tilde means partly, and it carries a note.
| Capability | GitHub Copilot | Fastpace |
|---|---|---|
| Governs more than one AI coding tool | ✕ | ✓ |
| Enforces policy where the developer works† | ∼ | ✓ |
| Writes a signed receipt for each AI call | ✕ | ✓ |
| Records the model, endpoint and training opt-out per call | ✕ | ✓ |
| Keeps a tamper-evident chain an auditor can verify | ✕ | ✓ |
| Ties a commit back to the run that produced it† | ∼ | ✓ |
| Produces an AI bill of materials | ✕ | ✓ |
| Maps evidence to compliance frameworks | ✕ | ✓ |
| Finds AI use outside the governed tools | ✕ | ✓ |
| Runs locally, with no prompt text leaving the machine | ✕ | ✓ |
Run Copilot for the code and Fastpace for the record. Copilot keeps its own admin settings; Fastpace adds the policy that covers every other agent too, the per-call receipts, the chain, and the commit provenance that ties them to the diff.
Copilot governs Copilot well. Fastpace governs what your developers actually run, which is usually more than one thing.
Free $0, Pro $10 per month, Pro+ $39, Max $100. Business and Enterprise appear on the plans page without prices.
Free tier: Yes: 2,000 inline suggestions a month, with limited chat and agent usage. · Checked October 2026.
Fastpace: Community is free. Team is $29 per editor seat per month billed annually, or $36 monthly, with the first five seats free for twelve months. Platform is $99 per editor seat per month billed annually. Enterprise is custom. Viewer seats for CISO and GRC are free on Team.
No tool does. Fastpace produces evidence and maps it to the controls a framework names. The judgment stays with your auditor, and Fastpace holds no certification on your behalf.
The policy compiler reports what each target can and cannot enforce. Some settings are protected by the operating system and some a determined developer can route around. We would rather print that than imply a guarantee.
We publish no customer logos we cannot name and no statistics we cannot source. Ask us for a pilot rather than a reference wall.
The CLI ships under the Elastic 2.0 licence. It runs locally in your repository, and we call that source-available because that is what it is.
No. Copilot writes code. Fastpace records and governs what coding agents do. If you need code written, you need an agent, not us.
Free is $0, Pro is $10 a month, Pro+ is $39 and Max is $100. Business and Enterprise appear on the plans page without prices. Checked October 2026.
No. It hashes the prompt and the reply and stores the hashes. No prompt or reply text is written to disk, and it runs locally.
Less than for a mixed fleet, but the per-call receipt, the chain and the commit provenance are things Copilot does not produce. If nobody will ever ask you to prove what happened, wait.