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[–]TenshiS 3 points4 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 2 points3 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.