Claude Code vs GitHub Copilot for game development: price and output rights

Side-by-side from each vendor's own pricing and terms pages, checked 2026-10-15. Prices shown exactly as displayed (promos and billing period noted).

The licence question first

Claude Code: free tier: n/a. Paid: commercial use allowed (Consumer Terms s.4: subject to compliance, Anthropic assigns to you all of its right, title and interest (if any) in Outputs). Details
GitHub Copilot: free tier: commercial use allowed. Paid: commercial use allowed (Same (individual plans use ToS s.J; Business/Enterprise use the Generative AI Services Terms)). Details

	Claude Code	GitHub Copilot
Free tier	Not included in Free plan (pricing table: Claude Code 'No' on Free)	Free: limited chat and agent usage
Paid price (as shown)	Pro $20/mo monthly ($17/mo annual); Max from $100/mo	Pro $10/mo; Pro+ $39/mo; Max $100/mo
Credits / cost per asset	not stated	not stated
Licence: free tier	n/a (Claude Code not included on Free)	GitHub ToS s.J.2: GitHub does not claim ownership of your Input or Output; you must check whether Output needs a third-party/open-source licence
Licence: paid	Consumer Terms s.4: subject to compliance, Anthropic assigns to you all of its right, title and interest (if any) in Outputs	Same (individual plans use ToS s.J; Business/Enterprise use the Generative AI Services Terms)
Export / engines	Terminal/IDE agent (any engine)	VS Code, JetBrains, CLI (any engine)
API / MCP	API via Anthropic Platform (separate commercial terms)	Copilot CLI, cloud agent
Affiliate	not stated	not stated