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Github Copilot vs Hol Registry
Autocomplete, code chat, and developer productivity in popular IDEs · discovering and comparing installable Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and MCP plugins with publisher and trust signals
| Decision point | GitHub Copilot | HOL Registry |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Autocomplete, code chat, and developer productivity in popular IDEs | discovering and comparing installable Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and MCP plugins with publisher and trust signals |
| Category | Development | Development |
| Price | Paid plans | Free |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 4.5/5 | 4.0/5 |
Scores are editorial product assessments — job fit, likely output quality, ease of adoption, and operational cost — not lab benchmarks, and no tool here has a published hands-on result. How we score.
Evidence status
Copilot Free is free and limited to 2,000 completions per month, auto model selection, and an unspecified allowance of GitHub AI Credits. Copilot Student is free for verified students. Paid individual plans: Pro $10/month with 1,500 total monthly AI credits; Pro+ $39/month with 7,000; Max $100/month with 20,000. Organization plans: Business $19/user/month with 1,900 AI credits per user; Enterprise $39/user/month with 3,900. Additional usage is $0.01 per AI credit; code completions and next-edit suggestions remain unlimited on paid plans.
Official sources checked 2026-10-01Open verification questions
- GitHub does not publish a numeric AI-credit allowance for Copilot Free or Student on the plans page.
- The public Terms do not give a blanket commercial-use warranty, non-infringement guarantee, or ownership assignment for generated Output; they only state that GitHub does not claim ownership.
- Starting April 22, 2026, new self-serve Copilot Business sign-ups for organizations on GitHub Free and GitHub Team were temporarily paused; the official page did not publish an end date.
GitHub's Terms effective April 27, 2026 state that GitHub does not claim ownership of Copilot Input or Output. For individual licenses, GitHub and its affiliates may use Inputs and Outputs to develop, train, and improve AI/ML models unless the user opts out in account settings. The individual-license training provision does not apply when use is governed by a GitHub Customer Agreement or volume licensing agreement; those agreements control data use. GitHub says Inputs and Outputs are not shared with third-party AI model providers for those providers' independent model training. GitHub warns that Output can resemble training data or third-party/open-source code. Users must determine whether a license is required and review, test, and validate Output. GitHub's broader Terms grant GitHub and its affiliates rights to use hosted user content to develop and train AI technologies; the Copilot opt-out does not apply to public-repository content or the broader repository-content license. Re-verified 2026-10-01: The official Copilot plans documentation still matches the recorded Free/Pro/Pro+/Max and Business/Enterprise prices and AI-credit allocations; no drift detected.
Free. Browsing the plugin catalogue and submitting a public plugin repository cost nothing - stated in the catalogue's own FAQ ("list your public repository for free") and in the live https://hol.org/plugins/llms.txt, which sells nothing. No paid tier exists for the catalogue itself; paid credits apply to other HOL registry operations, and HOL Guard is a separately priced product with its own plans. Verified 2026-10-14 from the live /plugins/llms.txt plus the archived catalogue page, because live catalogue HTML is served behind a Cloudflare challenge and returned 403 to every scripted client.
Official sources checked 2026-10-14Open verification questions
- No general site-wide Terms of Service was located. The footer link labelled "Terms of Service" resolves to https://hol.org/points/legal/terms (a points-programme legal page) in both the live app shell and the archived pages, and that page's actual scope could not be read because live HTML is Cloudflare-challenged. Treat the recorded rights_url as the only terms link found, not as confirmed coverage of the catalogue.
- Catalogue size disagrees between HOL's own surfaces: the archived catalogue page (2026-08-31) read "Showing 243 plugins across 16 ecosystems" while the live /plugins/llms.txt says "205 catalog plugins". The listing therefore quotes no figure.
- Retention periods and named subprocessors are asserted in the privacy summary ("the complete policy names categories of providers and explains ... retention") but the full Privacy Policy, stated as last updated 2026-06-29, could not be read from this host. Retention and processor specifics are unverified.
- Security scoring is a fallback static catalogue scan, not a live exploit test - disclosed by the site itself in its FAQ and llms.txt. Any trust score should be read as a weak signal, and the listing's pros/cons say so.
- The privacy summary warns that information written to a public blockchain can be visible to third parties and may be permanent even after an off-chain account is deleted. This applies to HOL Points and registry features rather than the plugin catalogue, but is not itemised per product.
Submitted via the site form by the vendor (name "HOL Plugins", url https://hol.org/plugins, category Development, contact michael@hol.org) - FormSubmit mail timestamped Thu, 2026-10-15 00:22 UTC, i.e. 2026-10-14 in the site's Pacific working date. Editorial entry written independently; no vendor copy reused and no revenue figure inferred. Operator identity verified twice: (1) the site's own About and Contact pages state that "Hashgraph Online DAO LLC operates hol.org", give the business address 852 Long Island Rd, Majuro 96960, Marshall Islands, and publish +1 347-705-7394 and support@hol.org; (2) independently, the GitHub organisation "hashgraph-online" (display name "HOL (Hashgraph Online)", 66 public repositories, created 2024-02-18) lists hol.org as its blog, Marshall Islands as its location and support@hol.org as its email, and its hol-guard repository lists https://hol.org/guard as its homepage (Apache-2.0, 896 stars, last pushed 2026-10-15). Submitted contact michael@hol.org is a real mailbox: SMTP RCPT probe against the domain's own Google Workspace MX returned 250 2.1.5 OK, while a random local part returned 550 5.1.1, proving the domain is not a catch-all. Provenance limits, stated plainly: hol.org serves its HTML, its sitemap.xml, its OpenAPI document and its live API endpoints behind a Cloudflare challenge (403 to every scripted client; only the llms.txt surfaces load), and the interactive browser was unavailable on this host, so the catalogue, About, Contact and Privacy pages were read from Wayback snapshots (catalogue 2026-08-31; About 2026-09-19; Contact 2026-09-19; Privacy 2026-09-24) and cross-checked against the live surfaces that do load: /plugins/llms.txt, /guard/llms.txt, robots.txt and the live 404 app shell, which carries the site's full navigation. Ownership is not in question on any reading.
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