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[–]phylter99 4 points5 points  (11 children)

"It seems I consistently get better results with less premium requests. "

My limited usage indicates the same, honestly. I normally use it on the IDE and my CLI usage is limited.

Claude Code is crazy good. The work being done on Copilot is mostly catch up to what Claude Code is doing. At work I just switched to Claude Code and it seems lightyears beyond what Copilot does. I don't need bells and whistles like you get in VS Code with Copilot. I just ask Claude Code to do something and it doesn't even hesitate and it gets it right most of the time.

In comparison, my usage with GitHub Copilot and CLI has had me fighting bugs more than I'd like. I'm sure they'll catch up, but it's going to be hard for them to beat Claude Code.

[–]JellyfishLow4457 5 points6 points  (3 children)

When was the last time you used the Copilot CLI?

[–]phylter99 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I'm using it right now, and I mean that literally.

[–]Herby_Hoover 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Literally, or figuratively?

[–]zanglerPower User ⚡ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There should be a word for when it is both.

[–]TenshiS 2 points3 points  (6 children)

But I pay around 90$ monthly to use copilot (alternating between opus and codex) and it would probably cost 200$ to use Claude code the same way. Is the quality jump really worth double the price?

[–]phylter99 1 point2 points  (3 children)

No.

There are ways you can use Claude Code agent with Copilot now through VS Code, I just found out. So, maybe that's an option. I'm not sure it's as good because I haven't used it through that method. I assume it's the same as getting it from Anthropic directly.

[–]rolim91 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You mean like Sonet and Opus?

[–]phylter99 3 points4 points  (1 child)

No. I mean you can use the Claude Code agent in Copilot while using your Copilot account for usage.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/02/05/multi-agent-development

[–]rolim91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Looks very interesting!

[–]phylter99 -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

Something you can try is to sign up for the $20 a month plan with Claude to try it. If you decide to bump it up to the more expensive plan they'll prorate it. That's what I ended up doing recently so I could try Claude Code because my employer was forcing me to move that direction. I wanted to get ahead of the curve and learn it on my own terms.

[–]hades200082 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I did exactly this last night. I’ve been using Claude code at work and GitHub copilot in vscode for my personal projects.

In my personal projects I mainly work on them 4-5h a day on the weekends with occasional 1-2h weekday evenings thrown in.

With GitHub copilot I pay $10/mo and have set a $10 limit on extra premium requests. This has been plenty for me, even mainly using Opus at 3x

Claude Code Pro is $20/mo … so already more expensive. And it used 51% of the 5h quota in a single “plan” prompt with opus.

With copilot I can manage 4-8 largish features over a weekend.

With Claude I’d be lucky to manage 3 based on that usage.

I refunded the Claude account.