GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users

Github Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Github from Microsoft, has now reached more than 20 million users, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the company profit call Wednesday. A Github spokesperson confirmed to WAN that this number of ‘users of all time’ represents.

That means that five million people have tried Github Copilot for the first time in the past three months; The company reported in April The tool had reached 15 million users. Microsoft and Github do not report how many of these 20 million people have continued to use the AI coding tool on a monthly or daily basis – although those statistics are probably much lower.

Microsoft also reported Github Copilot, one of the most popular AI coding tools offered today, is used by 90% of the Fortune 100. The growth of the product among company customers has also grown by around 75% compared to the past quarter, according to the company.

AI coding tools rise in popularity and they seem to be one of the few AI products that generate remarkable income. In 2024 Nadella said Github Copilot was a larger company Then the whole of Github was then Microsoft acquired it in 2018. In the year since then it seems that the growth rate of Github Copilot has continued in a positive direction.

The most popular AI coding tools in the world still have small user bases compared to AI chatbots such as Chatgpt and Gemini, who attract hundreds of millions of users every month. Software engineering is of course more niche than the general informative questions offered by AI -Chatbots.

That said, software and their employers seem to be willing to pay a premium for AI coding tools. And with the long list of Microsoft with Enterprise customers and Github’s ecosystem from developers, Github Copilot is well positioned to dominate the market for Enterprise AI coding tools.

Cursor, another popular AI coding tool, wants to challenge Github Copilot in the company, and it has collected talent from young AI startups to do this. Cursor reportedly had More than a million people According to Bloomberg, product are used every day in March. At that time, the company generated around $ 200 million in annual income. Nowadays Cursor’s Arr is more than $ 500 million, which suggests that there are now many more people who use the products every day.

Although Github Copilot and Cursor initially tried to tackle various parts of the developer experience, they come together steadily in comparable products.

Both companies recently introduced AI agents to assess code And Catch bugs Introduced by people. Github and Cursor also try to make both AI agents who automate programming workflows, so that developers can completely discharge tasks. Nadella said that during Wednesday’s income Github saw a great momentum with their AI coding agents.

In addition to Cursor, Github has a range of well-capitalized competitors who want to sell AI coding tools to the company.

There is Google – who has acquired the leaders of AI Coding Startup Windsurf – as well as cognition, the creator of Devin who subsequently acquired the rest of the Windsurf team. Not to mention OpenAi and Anthropic, both of which build up their own AI coding offering, powered by internal AI models, Codex and Claude Code, in an attempt to win the market.

The emerging space is quickly warmed up in one of the most competing markets in AI.