Is GitHub Copilot Down?
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What to do when GitHub Copilot is down
Keep coding with a comparable AI assistant
If Copilot completions and chat are down, the fastest unblock is another model-backed assistant. Claude (via Claude Code or the API) is a strong substitute for in-editor coding work, and ChatGPT covers chat-style explanation and debugging well. Both share the same model families Copilot itself routes to, so the quality gap is small.
Route around the outage with a cross-provider gateway
For API-driven or agent workloads, send requests through a gateway that can fall back across multiple model providers instead of depending on a single backend. OpenRouter exposes a large catalog of models behind one endpoint, and the inference providers directory lists comparable gateways so you can keep building while Copilot's backend recovers.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is GitHub Copilot down right now?
The live indicator at the top of this page reflects GitHub Copilot's current state, pulled from GitHub Status and refreshed every couple of minutes. A green status means completions and Copilot Chat are operating normally; amber means degraded performance (slower suggestions, intermittent chat errors, or partial feature loss); red means a confirmed outage that GitHub is actively investigating. If you see errors in your editor but the dot here is green, the problem is more likely local: check your network, your editor's Copilot extension, and that you are signed in to GitHub.
How do I check if GitHub Copilot is down?
There are three reliable signals. First, this page, which polls GitHub's official status feed and shows component-level detail. Second, the official GitHub Status page at githubstatus.com, where Copilot is listed as its own component alongside Actions, Pages, and the API. Third, the GitHub Status account on X for incident commentary. Because Copilot depends on GitHub authentication, an outage of the broader GitHub platform can take Copilot down even when the model backends are fine.
What do I do when GitHub Copilot is down?
First confirm it is GitHub's side and not your editor by reloading the window, signing out and back in to GitHub, and checking your internet connection. If the outage is confirmed, switch to a comparable coding assistant such as Claude (via Claude Code or the API) or another model through a cross-provider gateway so your work is not blocked. Brief Copilot interruptions usually clear within minutes, so retrying after a short wait is often enough for completion glitches.
How often does GitHub Copilot go down, and how reliable is it?
GitHub Copilot is generally reliable, with most days passing without any user-visible disruption. When problems do occur they are more often brief degradations (slow or missing completions, transient chat errors) than full outages, and they typically resolve within minutes to an hour. Copilot incidents sometimes coincide with broader GitHub platform incidents or with upstream model-provider issues, since Copilot depends on both GitHub services and third-party LLMs.
Which models power GitHub Copilot, and is it the same as Microsoft Copilot?
GitHub Copilot runs on multiple large language models and lets you pick among them in Copilot Chat, including OpenAI GPT models and Anthropic Claude models, with the exact lineup changing over time as GitHub adds options. It is distinct from Microsoft Copilot (the consumer and Microsoft 365 assistant) and from Azure OpenAI, even though all three sit under the Microsoft umbrella. Because Copilot can route to several providers, an outage at one model vendor may degrade some model choices in Copilot Chat while completions or other models keep working.
Where can I see GitHub Copilot incident history?
GitHub publishes incident history and post-incident summaries at githubstatus.com, where you can browse past Copilot incidents along with the rest of the platform. For a cross-provider view, TensorFeed tracks Copilot alongside other AI services on the main status board so you can compare reliability against tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini in one place.