Copilot AI coding tool analysis

Is your Copilot investment actually paying off?

50-seat Copilot Business costs $11,400/year. GitHub shows you seats used — TokenLens shows you whether those seats are generating real value or burning budget.

Also works with Cursor · Codeium · Windsurf · Any IDE telemetry

Copilot ROI Calculator
Engineering team 50 developers
Copilot Business plan $19/seat/mo
Annual cost $11,400
Typical inactive seats (30–40%) 15–20 seats
Wasted annually $3,420 – $4,560
Recoverable with TokenLens $2,800+/year
The problem

GitHub tells you who has a seat. Not who's using it well.

Engineering leaders spend thousands on AI coding tools with zero visibility into actual productivity impact.

👻

Ghost seats

Developers who activated Copilot but haven't generated a completion in weeks. You're paying $19–39/month for nothing.

30–40%

of seats are inactive at most orgs

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Repetitive completions

The same boilerplate — imports, error handlers, CRUD patterns — generated thousands of times across repos, burning through token limits.

45%+

of completions are near-duplicates

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Low acceptance rates

Developers reject most suggestions but still consume tokens. Without metrics, you can't tell who needs better prompting training.

22%

average acceptance rate (industry)

How it works

Three ways to get Copilot insights

Start with a simple CSV export. Go deeper with our IDE extension.

1

Copilot admin CSV export

Go to your GitHub org settings → Copilot → Usage → Export CSV. Drop the file into TokenLens. Takes 30 seconds.

Organization → Settings → Copilot → Export

✓ Available now · Free tier

2

API gateway logs

If you route Copilot/Cursor through a proxy (LiteLLM, Helicone, custom gateway), export the request logs as JSON or JSONL.

litellm, helicone, custom proxy

✓ Available now · Starter tier

3

VS Code extension

Install our lightweight extension. It passively monitors completions, tokens, and acceptance rates — then surfaces insights in a local dashboard.

ext install tokenlens.copilot-insights

✓ Available now · Growth tier

Insights

The numbers your CFO is going to ask for

Every metric engineering leadership needs to justify — or cut — AI coding tool spend.

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Seat utilization report

Which developers are active, inactive, or low-usage. Projected savings from reallocating idle seats. Drill down by team, editor, and language.

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Duplicate completion detection

Find boilerplate patterns generated repeatedly across your org. Candidates for shared snippets, templates, or a custom context library.

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Cost-per-completion breakdown

How much each completion costs by language, editor, and developer. Identify which teams get the best value from their AI coding tools.

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Acceptance rate analysis

Which developers accept suggestions vs dismiss them. Low acceptance rates signal a training opportunity — not necessarily a tool problem.

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Monthly trend tracking

Is adoption growing or plateauing? Track usage trends over time to catch engagement drops before renewals.

ROI projections

Based on your actual usage data: what your Copilot spend delivers per developer per month, and where optimization would have the highest impact.

✓ Available on Growth plan

Real-time insights,
right in your editor

The TokenLens VS Code extension passively monitors Copilot, Cursor, and other AI coding tools. No proxies needed. Everything stays local.

Tracks completions, tokens, and acceptance rates per file, language, and session
Detects duplicate completion patterns with the same 5-layer engine as the web app
Status bar widget shows real-time token spend and savings opportunities
Optional sync to TokenLens dashboard for team-wide visibility (Growth plan)
Try it free →
// TokenLens extension output
// Monitoring: GitHub Copilot + Cursor

Session "2026-03-04 14:30"
├── completions: 47
├── tokens_in: 12,450
├── tokens_out: 3,820
├── accepted: 31 (66%)
├── duplicates: 8 "import patterns"
└── est_cost: $0.24

Patterns detected:
├── 12× "try/catch boilerplate"
├── "React useEffect setup"
├── "API fetch wrapper"
└── → 26 cacheable completions found

// Savings: $3.40/day → $70/mo this dev
Pricing

Start free. Prove ROI before you commit.

Every tier includes Copilot analysis. Upgrade for deeper insights and team features.

Free
$0
forever
See your seat waste
  • Copilot CSV upload & analysis
  • Seat utilization breakdown
  • 10 uploads/month
  • Up to 5K records
  • Basic duplicate detection (3 layers)
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Starter
$99/mo
Typical ROI: 3–5× on Copilot spend
Fix waste systematically
  • Full Copilot deep analysis
  • Duplicate completion detection (5 layers)
  • Per-developer cost breakdown
  • Language & editor analysis
  • 25 uploads/month, 50K records
  • 5 team members & shared scans
  • Caching & model downgrade recs
  • 90-day scan history
  • Email alerts & PDF reports
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Growth
$299/mo
Typical ROI: 10× on team AI spend
Team-wide visibility
  • VS Code extension & cloud sync
  • Real-time completion monitoring
  • Team-wide Copilot dashboard
  • Cross-tool comparison (Copilot vs Cursor)
  • Everything in Starter
  • Unlimited uploads, 500K records
  • Anomaly detection & forecasting
  • Slack/webhook alerts
  • 20 seats, team management
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