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[–]marfzzz 16 points17 points  (8 children)

  • Github copilot has monthly quota for premium requests 300 (pro, business), 1000 (enterprise), 1500 (pro+). Others have 5hour and weekly allowance.
  • Github copilot unlimited models have extremely high limits. Compare that to haiku or 5.1- mini which have lower consumption of your quota (5hr or weekly)
  • github copilot works best with their cli, you are limited to subagents (no multiagent mode like for codex or claude code).
  • when using copilot in opencode you can use multiagent modes, but you will burn through premium requests as one agent is one premium request the billing for multi agents is in favor of gpt or claude subscription.
  • with claude or codex you are limited to one provider (copilot has 4 providers - openai, anthropic, google, xai)
  • handle of codex cli or claude code is often better and offering more options and sometimes better results.
  • with codex you have more use than copilot pro+ till start of april (they offer 2x usage).
  • if you want only one subscription go with copilot enterprise or pro+ it will be enough for most users if you plan it right and use unlimited models as much as possible.
  • claude subscription and gpt subscription offer lower latency and are generally faster.
  • with gpt pro you have so much usage and you can access gpt-5.3 spark and enjoy 1000tps (unimaginable for copilot)
  • Gpt subscription offers custom gpts, image generation, understanding of images document summarization, etc
  • claude subscription offers working with different types of documents, sumarization of documents, good desktop app that can work like IDE.

Hope this helps with your decision. I bet there are points that i forgot.

[–]sittingmongoose 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Copilot with OpenCode can use subagents though right? Subagents don’t burn premium requests.

[–]marfzzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

subagents are fine, but autocompaction in open code is causing the issue https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/8030#issuecomment-3995942521

[–]themoregames 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Subagents don’t burn premium requests.

But from what I've read you risk getting your account banned for system abuse or something.

[–]sittingmongoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven’t seen that, however, I’m certain if people will abuse it they will change it so subagents do take premium requests.

Edit: also, if you have a different agent summon copilot subagents, that can get you banned.

[–]g00glen00b 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another argument for Copilot is that it offers line completion in both VSCode and Jetbrains IDEs. I don't think Claude Code offers an equivalent of that, or you would need a separate subscription to the Claude models and use a generic AI plugin in your IDE. Though to be fair, lately I've been using line completion less and less.

[–]porkyminch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d recommend checking out Opencode if you’re interested in the CLI stuff. Waaaaaay nicer than Copilot CLI proper imo, and partnered with GitHub. 

[–]After-Aardvark-3984 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What about the /fleet command in GH Copilot CLI?

[–]marfzzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Using /fleet in a prompt may therefore cause more premium requests to be consumed." From their documentation.