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GitHub CoPilot vs Microsoft Power Apps comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 19, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.3
GitHub CoPilot boosts productivity and reduces costs with up to 500% return, improving customer experience and documentation efficiency.
Sentiment score
7.1
Microsoft Power Apps boosts productivity and savings by automating processes, though ROI and licensing can vary for complex cases.
Efficiencies with GitHub CoPilot have improved by 30%, which means a quicker go-to market and a simplified way of documenting technical designs.
Vice President of Products at C5i
The connection between Power Apps and Power BI simplifies generating and presenting reports, alleviating the workload and enhancing productivity.
Revit Developer at Expocentric pty Ltd
The aim is to create a cleaner interface to replace spreadsheets, thus standardizing processes and improving efficiency.
Management Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
4.6
Users have mixed experiences with GitHub CoPilot support, praising community help but noting occasional response delays and onboarding improvements.
Sentiment score
6.3
Microsoft Power Apps customer service is mixed, with some delays; users rely on community support and documentation for help.
With a large user base, it covers a wide range of questions, from simple to complex, ensuring that answers are available.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
GitHub technical support is excellent.
AppSec engineer at EastNets Holding Ltd.
They are probably adequate for pretty vanilla type of requirements or support tickets, but when it actually comes to something in-depth, I would not rate them more than six or seven, maximum seven.
Automation Enthusiast at Sateba Group
Their assistance was crucial as we developed the solutions.
Management Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
Community support is closer to an eight or nine since there's a big enough community that someone has likely faced the same problem and posted about it, improving the community overall.
Technology & Innovation Consultant at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
GitHub CoPilot scales effectively, providing easy cloud-based scalability and flexibility, despite occasional traffic issues and automation challenges.
Sentiment score
6.6
Microsoft Power Apps is flexible and adaptable but may face scalability issues with large data and enterprise use.
It cannot be fully depended on to build every component and run a large enterprise application without significant human intervention.
Vice President of Products at C5i
With an enterprise plan, there are no limitations, so scalability is not an issue.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is quite easy to scale.
QA Manager at Synechron
If it is flexible and includes premium connectors, scalability is easy.
Solutions Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
It is quite scalable, though there are some limitations regarding the number of records.
RPA Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
GitHub CoPilot is generally stable, rated highly by users, with minor connectivity issues noted primarily in large enterprises.
Sentiment score
7.5
Microsoft Power Apps is stable and reliable with occasional issues; generally well-rated, especially for simpler use cases.
In most cases, it does not generate irrelevant code.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
At certain times, you may not get the required response and realize it's either down or not responding for other reasons.
Vice President of Products at C5i
I have not really seen any performance issues, slowness, or response time.
Automation Enthusiast at Sateba Group
I would rate the stability of Microsoft Power Apps as a nine out of ten.
Solutions Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

GitHub CoPilot needs better language support, IDE integration, user control, contextual accuracy, debugging, and technology support with cost concerns.
Microsoft Power Apps needs improvements in integration, documentation, pricing, customization, connectivity, and user experience for seamless functionality.
Users should not be 100% reliant on AI or any LLMs. They need to work on it and they need to review the code.
QA Manager at Synechron
There is excellent support across various code editors like JetBrains, VS Code, and NeoGen.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
To understand our application better and learn from it would likely require access to the entire codebase, which a lot of companies may not allow.
Vice President of Products at C5i
This would assist business process users who lack coding knowledge.
Solutions Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
These tools should be intuitive for business users who will need at least a week of training to use them effectively.
Management Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
In many use cases, applications might require importing data exceeding two thousand records, potentially reaching one hundred thousand.
RPA Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

GitHub CoPilot offers a free version, personal and enterprise pricing, with varied perceptions on its value and affordability.
Microsoft Power Apps offers competitive pricing with varying costs based on subscription, often cheaper than custom development.
They recently made Copilot free to use up to a certain limit, which is a positive change.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The kind of use that I am having with a $20-30 license, I think it is really of really good help.
QA Manager at Synechron
For small to medium enterprises, it is affordable, especially with Microsoft Enterprise licensing.
Solutions Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
For more elaborate work, an upgrade to an enterprise license, costing around $35 per license, is needed.
Management Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
It is in the middle range and considered reasonable given the current price.
RPA Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

GitHub CoPilot boosts coding productivity with AI-driven suggestions, multi-language support, and IDE integration for efficient development.
Microsoft Power Apps facilitates rapid app development with seamless integration, customizability, low-code access, and cost-effective automation options.
It is certainly time-saving; we have seen upwards of around 30% plus of time savings using GitHub CoPilot.
Vice President of Products at C5i
Things which were taking like two days are now finished within half an hour.
QA Manager at Synechron
Copilot is integrated into my environment, providing the context and the bigger picture of how the code is used throughout the project.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It integrates seamlessly with Power Automate for process automation and connects with email, SharePoint, Power BI, and MS Teams, facilitating everyday processes.
Revit Developer at Expocentric pty Ltd
Canvas Apps provide complete user design flexibility with many connectors to integrate into Microsoft Power Apps, making it efficient to fetch and update information from various data sources such as Dataverse, Excel, SharePoint, and Azure.
RPA Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I run a couple of SQL Servers, which are premium connectors in Microsoft Power Apps, and that requires a different licensing model than what a standard E5 license covers.
Technology & Innovation Consultant at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

GitHub CoPilot
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
AI Code Assistants (2nd)
Microsoft Power Apps
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
96
Ranking in other categories
Low-Code Development Platforms (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Rapid Application Development Software category, the mindshare of GitHub CoPilot is 5.2%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Apps is 10.9%, down from 17.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Rapid Application Development Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Microsoft Power Apps10.9%
GitHub CoPilot5.2%
Other83.9%
Rapid Application Development Software
 

Featured Reviews

TusharShankar - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at Synechron
AI coding assistant has transformed development speed and supports learning new languages
Any technology comes with two things, or rather anything in this world has both sides, good and bad. LLMs also have the same thing. The bad part is for a person who is 100% dependent on AI because they won't be able to learn more if they are 100% dependent on that. The main thing is that there has to be restraint from our side. I won't say it is from the tool side, but from our side, we need to learn and we need to work on it. We need to review the code. That is one thing that we need to do from our end. From a technology perspective, it is designed to help us out, and it is totally on our side of thinking about how exactly we are going to use that. There is not any area for improvement from the tool side, but it is from the users altogether. Users should not be 100% reliant on AI or any LLMs. They need to work on it and they need to review the code.
BS
Automation Enthusiast at Sateba Group
Low-code AI workflows have streamlined content curation and currently support rapid app creation
Microsoft Power Apps could be improved because there are still a lot of jargons and too many moving parts. For example, if you look at Copilot, the term Copilot is confusing in the sense of whether it is Copilot in M365, Copilot Studio, or Copilot in Microsoft Power Apps. There is a plan designer which uses Copilot. The whole thing how AI has been positioned is still not lucid for the end user. An end user wants to know exactly what they want and where they go to get it. I think that could also be because things are evolving so fast. From an end-user perspective, the way it has been positioned, the clarity and the boundaries between the different types of offerings and AI offerings available is confusing as of now. There should be better clarity on that. The biggest issue I have, and I have also spoken to a few of my clients about this, is the licensing model. In traditional software development, almost 95 percent of the time, the development team bears the cost of the licenses. For example, if I develop something, I may have to pay licenses for four or five different software that I use. As a user, if you use my services, you probably pay something to me as a subscription, but you do not have to bother about the licenses. All that is wrapped under the hood. Unfortunately, in Power Platform as such, and even in other low-code things like UiPath, if you use a premium feature such as Dataverse, almost everything ends up using Dataverse or SQL Server or some relational database. If you use that, then as an app builder or app maker you have to have a premium license. The end user too would need to have a premium license. That really makes the adoption prohibitive. It is too expensive. We are talking about something like around just for Microsoft Power Apps alone, approximately twenty dollars per month, which is extremely high. Another point to consider for what else can be improved in Microsoft Power Apps is that one does not know what compute power one is getting when one buys a license. If you look at the licensing model, you will get to know how much of Dataverse storage you will get in terms of log storage, database storage, and file storage. However, you do not get to know how much of compute power is being given to you. I do not think Microsoft has an SLA saying that any request of a certain amount, such as MB per second, you will get a response time of whatever, one by sixtieth of a second or some millisecond. I do not think that they have that performance SLA in place. They do have storage SLA which comes with the license, but they do not have a corresponding SLA for performance.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise50
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitHub CoPilot?
I am not fully aware of the pricing details as my company manages it, but I recall it was not inexpensive.
What needs improvement with GitHub CoPilot?
GitHub CoPilot should be integrated with different IDEs beyond VS Code, as it is currently only supported by VS Code.
How would you choose between Microsoft PowerApps and Salesforce Platform?
I think it depends on your use case. If your organization uses Microsoft Enterprise products, PowerApps will work better in your environment. Similarly, if you have a Salesforce integration in pla...
Would you choose ServiceNow over Microsoft PowerApps?
Hi Netanya, I will choose ServiceNow because ServiceNow is a very good tool compared to Microsoft PowerApp. Because ServiceNow has a very strong module (Performance Analysis) reporting which will ...
Would you choose Microsoft Azure App Service or PowerApps?
Microsoft Azure App Service is helpful if you need to set up temporary servers for customers to run their programs in locations that other cloud providers do not cater to. When servers are closer t...
 

Also Known As

No data available
PowerApps, MS PowerApps
 

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Sample Customers

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TransAlta, Rackspace, Telstra
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