Atlassian Rovo Dev vs GitHub Copilot

Atlassian Rovo Dev is an AI agent for professional software engineers that supports code planning, generation, review, and bulk task automation. It creates code plans using knowledge from across the Atlassian platform and can help implement work items through refactoring, tests, and documentation. For code review, it analyzes changes, suggests improvements, and checks them against Jira acceptance criteria. Rovo Dev CLI understands repository code and acts on plans in Jira. The product describes workflows in Bitbucket Cloud and GitHub, as well as integration with VS Code; supported IDEs are VS Code and Cursor. It also lists chat assistance, codebase indexing, and terminal access. Atlassian says the agent respects existing permissions, so results can vary with the content each user can access. The Free plan costs nothing and provides 350 credits per user per month per Jira site. Standard costs $20 a month, billed per developer per month, and includes 2,000 credits per developer; extra usage costs $0.01 per credit. Changing from Free to Standard starts a 30-day trial. The standalone product is reaching end of life, with capabilities moving to eligible Jira and Teamwork Collection subscriptions; no final end-of-life date is stated. Atlassian's transition FAQ says all Rovo Dev tools, including Code Reviewer, remain active as of October 1, 2026.

GitHub Copilot provides contextual assistance across software development, including inline code suggestions, chat, code explanations and answers to documentation questions. It works on GitHub and in editors including Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Xcode, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Neovim, Eclipse and Azure Data Studio; GitHub Mobile supports Android and iOS. Copilot CLI is included with all plans, and the tool can index codebases and work with terminals. Agent workflows can launch work from GitHub, track agents, review changes and merge completed work. The Free plan gives eligible individual developers 2,000 code completions and 50 chat requests per month, with community support; eligibility excludes people with organizational or enterprise Copilot access. Pro costs $10 a month, Pro+ $39 a month and Max $100 a month. Business is $19 seat per month, and Enterprise is $39 seat per month. Paid plans have unlimited code completions, while chat, agents, code review, CLI and Copilot Apps consume GitHub AI Credits. Suggestions are probabilistic; models are trained on natural language and publicly available source code.