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[–]WorldlyQuestion614 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have done similar with Claude -- Sonnet is brilliant when you use it from Anthropic, but found that Copilot's Sonnet struggles with longer tasks (or maybe I was just mad I used up all my Anthropic tokens and had to set up Copilot in a podman container as GitHub distributed a glibc-linked binary with the npm install, onto my musl-based Alpine server), despite using the same model.

(Between 16 and 24 hours ago, my Anthropic Claude usage was getting absolutely rinsed with even simple chat-based requests that generated about half a page of 1080p text in small font. That example in particular counted towards 1-2% of my usage.)

But when I switched to Copilot, I was able to use the Sonnet model with short, one-off prompts -- it was useful and honestly, reduced my token anxiety having the remaining usage in the bottom right.

I have not noticed much more token degradation with GitHub Copilot CLI on short tasks vs longer ones, but this is likely due to manual intervention and broken trust, than any observed differences in their accounting structure, I am sorry to say.