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Aedeon vs Copilot agents · Updated October 13, 2026
Copilot agents help people with documents, code and pull requests, inside the repository or app they are pointed at. Aedeon is the system of record for how your software actually works, and the engine that evolves it.
Keep Copilot for the work your developers do every day. Bring in Aedeon when a change crosses repositories, databases, pipelines and business rules, and has to match the old system on production traffic before it ships.
Scope of one task, as published
Definition
Two families of Microsoft agents share one name.
In Microsoft 365
“Copilot agents” covers two families of Microsoft products. In Microsoft 365, agents such as Researcher and Analyst, plus custom agents built in Copilot Studio, work on documents, email, meetings and business processes. Microsoft governs them through Agent 365, generally available since May 2026.
In GitHub Copilot
In GitHub Copilot, agents work on code. Agent mode edits files in the developer’s editor. Copilot cloud agent, called Copilot coding agent until April 2026, takes a task and works in the background, while Copilot code review comments on pull requests. The GitHub Copilot modernization agent upgrades Java, .NET and C++ applications and moves supported applications to Azure.
The Copilot agent family
Read across each row. The last column is the one that matters for a system owner: whether the agent changes the code your business runs on, and how far one task can reach.
| Agent | Where it runs | What it works on | Reach of one task |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 Copilot agentsMicrosoft 365 | Microsoft 365 apps and Copilot Chat | Documents, email, meetings and business data | One request or workflow; no application code |
| Copilot Studio agentsMicrosoft 365 | Copilot Studio, Teams and websites | Business processes you design, with connectors | The workflow you build; no application code |
| GitHub Copilot agent modeGitHub Copilot | VS Code and other supported editors | Code in the developer’s open workspace | The workspace in front of the developer |
| Copilot cloud agentGitHub Copilot | GitHub, in a temporary cloud environment | An issue or task in a repository | One repository per task, up to 59 minutes per session |
| Copilot code reviewGitHub Copilot | GitHub pull requests and the editor | The diff in a pull request | One pull request; it reviews and suggests |
| GitHub Copilot modernization agentGitHub Copilot | A command-line tool and the IDE | Java, .NET and C++ upgrades; moves to Azure | One or more applications, planned and executed per app |
| AedeonAedeon | Aedeon Studio, in your own cloud | Applications, databases, stored procedures, pipelines and business rules | Every connected system the change touches, behind gates a person approves |
The short answer
Copilot agents
Copilot agents make people faster inside the boundary they are given, whether that is a document, an editor, a repository or an application headed to Azure. They are licensed per person and built into tools your teams already use.
Aedeon
Aedeon is built for the change that crosses those boundaries. Every application, database, pipeline and business rule sits in one map, Aedeon Graph. From one sentence, Aedeon Supervisor plans the change, and Aedeon Evolve checks the new system against the old one on production traffic before it ships.
Most enterprises
Most enterprises will keep their Copilot seats and add Aedeon for system change. The two meet in your Git, where Aedeon’s commits arrive with their full history and go through the same review as everything else.
Which tool for which job
Eight requests a VP of Engineering might hear in one week, and the tool built for each.
“Fix the flaky checkout test.”
Best fit
WhyA single-repository task with a clear finish line. Assign the issue to Copilot and review the pull request it produces.
Worth knowingAedeon is built for changes that cross systems. A one-repository fix does not need a cross-system plan.
“Upgrade this Spring Boot 2 service to Spring Boot 3 and deploy it to Azure Container Apps.”
Best fit
WhyThis is the scenario it was built for: assess, plan and execute a Java upgrade with Azure as the target, validating builds and scanning for CVEs along the way.
Worth knowingReach for Aedeon if other systems share this service’s database, jobs or business rules.
“Get us off Oracle.”
Best fit
WhyThe schema, stored procedures, ORM bindings, a nightly reconciliation job, two compliance checks and a BI feed all move together. Aedeon finds each one in the graph, plans the change, gates every step and checks it on production traffic before cutover.
Worth knowingA repository-scoped agent sees the billing code. The job, the policies and the BI feed live elsewhere.
“Show me what breaks if I change this.”
Best fit
WhyAedeon Graph follows every read and write of a field across repositories, databases and pipelines, with citations to the file, line range and version.
Worth knowingCopilot can search the repository it is working in. The question here spans all of them.
“Break up the claims monolith.”
Best fit
WhySplitting a monolith changes shared tables, jobs and integrations owned by other teams. Aedeon plans the order, gates each step and verifies each one on real traffic.
Worth knowingCopilot agents can help developers carry out individual steps inside each repository.
“Upgrade every Java 8 service.”
Best fit
WhyThe Copilot agent built for Java upgrades can batch-upgrade many Java applications. If those services share databases, jobs or business rules, Aedeon plans them as one change and verifies it on production traffic.
Worth knowingStart by asking what the services have in common. The answer picks the tool.
“Review this pull request for security issues.”
Best fit
WhyCopilot reviews pull requests on GitHub and in the editor, and flags issues before merge.
Worth knowingAedeon’s own commits can go through the same review step.
“Summarize this quarter’s incident reviews for the leadership meeting.”
Best fit
WhyDocuments and meetings are Microsoft 365 territory. An agent such as Researcher is built for this kind of request.
Worth knowingNeither Copilot cloud agent nor Aedeon is meant for document work.
Read the documentation
These limits come from GitHub Docs and Microsoft Learn, checked October 13, 2026. Every one of them is reasonable for the job the agent was designed to do. Taken together, they explain why a cross-system change needs something else.
Published limit
GitHub’s documentation says Copilot cloud agent can change only the repository specified when a task starts, and cannot change several repositories in one run.
What Aedeon does
Aedeon plans one change across every repository it touches.
Published limit
The cloud agent draws context from the repository it is working in. Broader context requires configuring MCP servers.
What Aedeon does
Aedeon Graph already holds every connected repository, database and pipeline in one map.
Published limit
Each cloud agent session has a maximum execution time of 59 minutes, and GitHub states the limit cannot be extended.
What Aedeon does
Aedeon runs a change gate by gate for as long as the plan needs. The New York Times change ran twelve weeks.
Published limit
The cloud agent works only with repositories hosted on GitHub.
What Aedeon does
Aedeon commits land in your own Git and work with CI/CD such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Bamboo.
Published limit
GitHub advises reviewing and testing the agent’s output before using it in production.
What Aedeon does
Aedeon checks the change against the old system on production traffic before it ships.
Published limit
Microsoft describes its Copilot upgrade agent as upgrading Java, .NET and C++ applications and moving supported applications to Azure, validating builds, unit tests and CVE scans.
What Aedeon does
Aedeon works toward any destination, on any cloud or database. Your choice of target stays yours.
What Aedeon adds
Aedeon Graph resolves 15 kinds of entity and 16 kinds of relationship across code, databases, stored procedures and pipelines, stamped with the version each fact came from. It maps 94 to 98 percent of business logic automatically and flags the rest as gaps.
State the outcome in one sentence. Aedeon Supervisor, a proprietary planning model, writes the steps and the estimated cost. Your architects edit and approve the plan before anything runs.
Aedeon Evolve runs the changed system against the old one on real traffic, with data, application and behavior checks. A divergence stops the gate. The New York Times change replayed 2,412,880 requests with zero divergences.
Aedeon runs in a private VPC in your cloud, in a sovereign region, or fully air-gapped on Virtual Private Aedeon. Models are limited to the ones your organization approves from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini and xAI Grok. On Max, full audit logs include SOX, PCI and HIPAA impact diffs.
Side by side, every day
Agent mode in the editor, cloud agent on the backlog, code review on pull requests.
One sentence to Aedeon, such as “Split the shared database.”
Every dependent system found first, with the plan and its cost approved by a person.
With source, analysis, model, approvals and verification runs attached.
Including Copilot code review if your repositories live on GitHub.
The next change starts from what Aedeon already knows.
Pricing as of October 13, 2026
Copilot is priced per person. Aedeon is priced per platform and per change.
| Business | $19 per user a month | Cloud agent, code review, third-party agents, governance, 1,900 AI credits per user |
| Enterprise | $39 per user a month | Everything in Business, priority access to new models, 2,000 more credits per user |
| AI credits | $0.01 each | Cloud agent tasks also consume GitHub Actions minutes |
| Microsoft 365 agents | Licensed separately | Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses and Copilot Studio credits |
| Free trial | $0 for 30 days | 5,000 credits, one repository up to 50K lines, graph view |
| Pro | $20 a month | 800 credits, 3 users, one repository up to 100K lines |
| Team | $80 a month | 3,500 credits, 25 users, 25 repositories |
| Max | $200 a month | 9,000 credits, unlimited users and repositories, production change |
| Virtual Private Aedeon | From $50,000 a year | Single tenant, your keys, your region, air-gapped option |
Worked example at list price
| GitHub Copilot | Aedeon | |
|---|---|---|
| Who | Copilot Enterprise for 200 developers | Aedeon Max for the whole organization |
| How it adds up | 200 × $39 per user a month, AI credits included per user | Unlimited users; 9,000 credits a month included, then $40 per 1,000 |
| List price | $7,800 a month | $200 a month, plus the credits your changes use |
The two buy different things. Copilot buys every developer an assistant, and Aedeon buys the organization a way to change its systems, priced by the work each change does.
Aedeon shows each change’s estimated cost before anyone approves it, and you pay for the credits the steps actually used.
Side by side
| Copilot agents | Aedeon | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI agents in Microsoft 365 and GitHub that help people with documents, code and pull requests | A system of record for how your software works that plans, performs and verifies change |
| Primary user | Every employee (Microsoft 365) and every developer (GitHub) | The people who own the systems, and the architects who approve plans |
| Unit of work | A request, a task, a pull request or an application upgrade | A change, stated as one sentence of intent |
| Reach of one task | Cloud agent: one repository. Java and .NET upgrades: one or more applications | Every application, database, pipeline and business rule the change touches |
| Understanding | Repository context, Copilot Spaces, and MCP servers for more | Aedeon Graph: 15 entity kinds and 16 relationship kinds, version-stamped |
| Checks | Builds, unit tests and CVE scans; code review on pull requests | Production traffic replayed against the old system; a divergence stops the gate |
| Session limits | 59 minutes per cloud agent session | Gate by gate, for as long as the plan runs |
| Destinations | Upgrades and moves target Azure services | Any destination, on any cloud or database |
| Deployment | GitHub cloud; cloud agent needs GitHub-hosted repositories | A private VPC in your cloud; your cloud or multi-cloud on Max; sovereign and air-gapped on Virtual Private Aedeon |
| Pricing | Per user: $19 Business, $39 Enterprise, plus AI credits | Per platform: $20 to $200 a month plus credits; Virtual Private Aedeon from $50,000 a year |
| Best fit | Daily developer and knowledge work across the company | Changes that cross systems and need proof before cutover |
Copilot details from GitHub Docs, GitHub’s plans page and Microsoft Learn, checked October 13, 2026.
Decide
The two sit on different budget lines. Copilot is licensed per person for daily work, and Aedeon is the platform your organization uses when a system has to change.
Answers
About Copilot agents
About Aedeon
Start here
Connect one repository and watch the graph build in about an hour. Describe one change and see the plan, the systems it touches and its estimated cost before anything runs.
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