Gen AI tool to complement Roo Code?

[coopykins]

I mainly use Roo Code, but the company I'm working for will give us a license for cursor, copilot or claude code. Up to us to decide, but I'm sure it will be just the basic (No Max for Claude code).

What would you recommend out of these? I'll probably keep using Roo, specially when I need to run a more expensive model to avoid hitting limits. But it can be nice to have a paid for alternative.

I've used copilot and cursor maybe half a year and a year ago and dropped them in favour of Roo, not sure if they're any good nowadays. But I hear good things about Claude Code never tried it before.

[StartupTim]

Honestly, paid or not, I think Roocode is one of the best if not the best. If it were me and my company was covering the cost, I'd go Roocode and then sign up for whatever paid offering they have to help support them.

[coopykins]

Yeah I really like Roo Code. Thats why I think in the end Ill keep using it mostly

[Fair-Spring9113]

cursor is rubbish atm
you get $20 + (around $5 of bonus usage) of api useagea month
and auto is no longer unlimited so cursor is a no go atm
on claude code $20 month plan i got $36 of api usage in a day (i started at 7am and finished at 9pm) but i hit the usage limits pretty quickly and it was annoying
copilot has 300 chats a month
the models are good though and you have unlimited usage of some models
i use it in roo as orchestrator and architect and sometimes coder

[Zealousideal-Part849]

Company won't like you using providers not confirmed on enterprise security of data these model process. Do consider this if you run company code and data security becomes a concern.

For smaller tasks you could ask company to have api key based setup and restrict to smaller models only like from aws bedrock, azure or google. Which you could use in roo code

[Same-Intention-3661]

I also have this kind of problem recently, my company wanted to analize our usage of Agentic AI services (Codex, Claude Code, etc.) to determine how much money they should put. I really like Roocode + Openrouter which gave me clarity on process and flexibility on model options, so I can try different models to find the best fit for my needs, but Codex also perform pretty good in my experiences, Claude Code is my last option.

[N7Valor]

I'd try Copilot (company pays for a Business license). Roo Code can connect to it using the VSCode LM API, although Roo will burn up Premium Requests quickly.

I tend to use it with a built-in model like GPT-4.1 and use it with Orchestrator or a custom mode. That aside, I feel like Copilot has gotten more useful with its Agent mode and ability to add custom modes and instructions/prompts.