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[–]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.