Compare

Swimm vs.
GitHub Copilot

Together, Swimm and GitHub Copilot help
every developer quickly understand code

Accurate answers require context

GitHub Copilot Business gives general answers to developer questions because it draws its context solely from the code editor. GitHub Copilot Enterprise promises more context-aware conversations with an additional layer of customization using your own repositories. But Copilot’s ‌context is still limited to your code, and code alone cannot tell the whole story.

With Swimm, all organizational knowledge sources are contextualized to provide highly accurate answers.

Comparing GitHub
Copilot and Swimm

Swimm and GitHub Copilot are different types of AI Code Assistants, so they aren’t directly comparable. Below are some key differences between the two.

	GitHub Copilot Business	GitHub Copilot Enterprise	/ask Swimm
Primary usage	Code completion	Code completion	Code understanding
Code analysis  for context	Relies only on open tabs from code editor		Deep source code analysis
Knowledge capture			Captures developer knowledge  & feedback to improve over time
Documentation generation	Description of the code’s functionality in isolation	Description of the code’s functionality in isolation	Automatically creates full documents across the codebase
Audits & certifications	Copilot is not currently included in GitHub’s certifications	Copilot is not currently included in GitHub’s certifications	SOC 2 and ISO27001
Git hosting		Github Enterprise Cloud	Github, Gitlab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket
Pricing	$19 per user / month	$39 per user / month	$28 per user / month

Swimm provides the missing
context GitHub Copilot needs

Contextual knowledge base that is always up-to-date

Swimm analyzes your organizational knowledge using advanced AI techniques and builds a cross-repository, code-coupled knowledge base that updates automatically as code changes and new knowledge is added.

It’s even possible to benefit from this contextual data on other AI tools—like GitHub Copilot.

Understanding the full story from multiple sources

Github only indexes code, while Swimm indexes data from a variety of sources, including code repositories, documentation files, and enterprise tools, as well as extracts developer knowledge.

It gets better as more context  is added

Copilot’s context doesn’t improve over time. When Swimm doesn’t know something, it prompts developers to fill in knowledge gaps and provide more context for answers.

The Swimm Engine uses this knowledge as a source of accurate information to enhance all future answers.

Documenting your most important information

Because Swimm is contextualized across all organizational knowledge, developers are motivated to document what’s important.

Using Swimm’s documentation tools and AI writing assistance, developers can easily create code-coupled documents that update automatically.

Doron Sinai Head of R&D, Sunbit

“Swimm enhances our developer experience and boosts productivity. Thanks to Swimm, every developer on our team can quickly understand and contribute code.”

Daniel Jakobsen Staff Engineer, VIM

“Swimm integrated into our SDLC and helps preserve vital knowledge about our codebase.”

Zach Case Senior Front End Developer, Fulfilld

“I really appreciate the developer-first approach, as it has boosted not only developer productivity but also code quality.”

Ryan McKenna Staff Engineer, RVO Health

Swimm is a tool that we don’t know how we lived without. Information, easily accessible to our devs where they need it, improved productivity and made transferring knowledge between engineers frictionless.