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GitHub Copilot vs. Warp
Warp and GitHub CLI are both popular developer tools, but they differ in key ways. Warp offers an AI-powered cloud-native terminal solution with seamless collaboration and extensive customization, while GitHub Copilot for CLI is a command-line tool that provides AI-powered code completion for your existing terminal.
Warp and iTerm2 are both popular terminals recommended by developers. iTerm2 is a very feature-rich traditional terminal whereas Warp has a more modern editing experience.
Developers switching to Warp from iTerm2 often want a more intuitive experience, with less required configuration, where they can work with teammates and use AI to help them get more done.
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Features |  GitHub Copilot |  Warp |
|---|---|---|
| Product Description | GitHub Copilot for CLI is a prototype that lets you use a set of commands to look up more complex commands. It is part of GitHub Copilot. | Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster. |
| Tagline | N/A | Your terminal, reimagined. |
| Founded In | N/A | 2020 |
| Mouse & Cursor Support | No | Yes. Warp’s text input editor is more like a modern IDE with selections, cursor positioning, and completion menus. |
| AI Integration (Scope & Depth) | Yes, but AI functionality is limited and in beta. | Yes. Warp AI is fully integrated throughout the terminal to suggest commands and make workflows easier. |
| Collaborative Features | No | Yes. Warp Drive is a space in your terminal where you can securely save and share commands as workflows. |
| Reusable Workflows Or Scripts | You can leverage AI to access previous workflows / scripts. | Yes. Workflows are paramaterized commands you can save, share, and run on-demand. |
| Built With... | N/A | Rust |
| Close Or Open Source | Closed Source | Closed Source |
| Cloud Enabled | Yes | Yes |
| Requires Log In | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing | $10 for individuals, $19 for businesses, and $39 for enterprise | Free for individuals; Charge for advanced AI or large team usage |
| Platform Availability | MacOS, Linux, Windows, BSD | MacOS and Linux (Windows waitlist) |
Features | GitHub Copilot | Warp |
|---|---|---|
| Modern Editing Features | ❌ Does not allow mouse positioning in input editor. ❌ Does not have IDE-style editing keyboard shortcuts. NOTE: There are keyboard shortcuts like CTRL-A that allow you to navigate to the beginning of a line, but that is related to the shell and not iTerm2 itself. 🤨 iTerm2 does support vim keybindings to edit input, but this requires the developer to run a command (specific to their shell) to get it working. ✅ Supports smart selection (clicking to automatically copy a URL, IP address, etc). | ✅ You can click anywhere in your command input with your mouse to edit. ✅ Supports modern editing keyboard shortcuts like CMD+Z to undo, or OPT+RIGHT to navigate to the end of a word. ✅ Supports vim keybindings to edit input. Toggle this on in the settings panel (works across all supported shells). ✅ Supports smart selection (clicking to automatically copy a URL, IP address, etc). |
| AI | ✅ Offers basic AI support to generate commands in your terminal based off natural language input. Note that this is currently in beta. ❌ UI does not support asking conceptual questions, like “Why can’t I have 2 processes running on the same port.” ❌ Has no built-in support for debugging terminal errors using AI. ❌ Not free. Users must provide their own OpenAI key before using this AI support within iTerm2. | ✅ Offers AI support to generate commands in your terminal based off natural language input. ✅ Can answer conceptual questions to explain what a command does or show why a certain solution works. ✅ Has built-in support for debugging terminal errors using AI. ✅ Free for the first 40 requests per user per month. |
| Collaboration | ❌ No built-in features for collaboration. ❌ No way to share terminal input or output. | ✅ Store and share reusable workflows that sync in real-time with a team Warp Drive. ✅ Share blocks of terminal input and output with a permalink. |
| Performance | ❌ Using VTEbench, iTerm2 underperformed compared to Warp across all measured benchmarks. 🤨 Using Termbench, iTerm2 and Warp had similar performance for regular benchmark sizes but underperformed handling small test sizes. ✅ Mostly written in Objective-C. GPU rendering on by default but can be turned off in settings. | ✅ Using VTEbench, Warp is over 90% faster at scrolling tests, 70% faster at the dense_cell benchmark, and 29% faster on the unicode benchmark. ✅ Using Termbench, Warp was 20% faster at handling small data sizes (~1mb) and 3% faster at regular benchmark sizes. ✅ Built with Rust and rendered directly on the GPU, optimizing for speed and responsiveness |
| Command Input | 🤨 Delegates command completions to the shell. Additional configuration necessary for supporting third party tools like git, docker, npm and more that the shell doesn't support out of the box. ❌ Does not support autosuggestions out-of-box. Delegates to the shell. ❌ Does not support alias command completions out-of-box. It delegates to the shell. 🤨 iTerm2 supports command history, but it delegates to the shell’s history functionality. According to its documentation, this feature requires some configuration first. ✅ Allows user to broadcast input across multiple different sessions. | ✅ Allow mouse positioning in input editor. ✅ Command completion for 400+ CLI tools, out-of-the-box. ✅ Autosuggestion support out-of-box. ✅ Supports aliases in command completion menu. ✅ Command history view & search out-of-box. ✅ Allows user to broadcast input across multiple different sessions. |
| Command Output | ✅ Supports basic search within the terminal output. ❌ Does not support regex in the search bar. ❌ Does not support “bookmarking” a specific command to save it as important. ❌ Does not automatically redact secrets in your command output (IP address, passwords). ❌ Does not visually group command input & output into a cohesive unit. | ✅ Supports basic search within the terminal output. ✅ Supports regex in search. For example, “.b” would highlight any word containing a letter, and then ‘b’. ✅ Supports “bookmarking” a specific command. This allows the user to come back to important commands during a long session. ✅ Automatically redacts secrets in your command output (IP address, passwords) so your terminal output is more secure. ✅ Warp introduces the concept of blocks, which allows you to easily visually distinguish one command from another. |
| Appearance & UX | ✅ Allows you to customize font type and size. ✅ Allows you to upload a custom background image. ✅ Allows you to toggle window transparency. ❌ Does not allow you to toggle where your input editor is positioned. ✅ Allows you show important information like host name, clock, git state & more through the status bar. NOTE: iTerm2 has a couple of components more than Warp here, offering information like CPU and memory utilization as well. | ✅ Allows you to customize font type and size. ✅ Allows you to upload a custom background image. ✅ Allows you to toggle window transparency. ✅ Allows you to easily toggle whether your input is positioned at the top or bottom of your terminal, for visual and ergonomic benefits. ✅ Allows you to show important information like host name, timestamp, git state & more through the prompt. Also allows you to easily edit the default prompt using a drag-and-drop GUI. |
| Window & Pane Management | ✅ Allows split panes. ✅ Allows coloring and renaming tabs. ✅ Supports quake mode (referred to as hotkey window in iTerm2). ✅ Supports extensibility. Allows you to access sessions, tabs, and windows through a Python API. ✅ Supports tmux though configuring “control-mode” | ✅ Allows split panes. ✅ Allows coloring and renaming tabs. ✅ Supports quake mode (referred to as hotkey window in iTerm2). ✅ Supports extensibility. Allows you to configure windows, panes, and commands-on-start using launch configurations. Edit the configs using .yaml files. 🤨Tmux support exists but conflicts with Warp features like blocks. |
| Configurability | ✅ Has GUI option to configure setting (unlike other terminals, which just offer a config file). ✅ Allows you to configure your keyboard shortcuts. ❌ No command palette. Search through the Mac Help menu. | ✅ Has GUI option to configure setting (unlike other terminals, which just offer a config file). ✅ Allows you to configure your keyboard shortcuts. ✅ Offers a command palette (similar to Mac Spotlight or Raycast) to search many configurability options within the application. |
| Platform Support | ✅ Mac ❌ Linux ❌ Windows | ✅ Mac ✅ Linux ❌ Windows (Coming soon) |
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