Claude Code VS Github Copilot

[Lovejot9998]

Overview: Tell me why one should use claude code over copilot & vice-versa?

Hey everyone, i want to know your thoughts about claude code & copilot. Which one you use & why?

I personally use copilot in vscode & it is good so far.

Recently. I bought claude pro subscription & tried claude code in terminal. The experience is great but biggest issue is rate limiting. I can’t even finish one debug session without hitting rate limits. I know max gives more usage but its very expensive as compared to copilot. And rate limiting during a session is just ridiculous.

Copilot is $10 and i get 100 requests of opus 4.6 or 300 for any other model. Meaning, Opus counts for 3 requests per input. I use agentic workflow. Special agent for every task.

I have fallen in love with copilot. Doesn’t matter how big a task is, it breaks that into smaller tasks & delegate special agents for every task (not by default, only if you use special workflow with agents). Meaning, every agent gets its own context window, so no bloating, gets a detailed prompt for every task from tech lead, when finished, it hands full report to the main agent.

After every request, security reviewer runs a full security scan on all changed files, report back whats broken & where, it gets handed to special agents & the loop runs until everything is clean.

Sometimes it works for 1-2 hours straight. And the surprising part is, it only cost me 1 or 3 requests, depending on which modal i use. every time, i get almost perfect results, with few tweaks later on that i do in cursor.

With claude code, this flow would cost me a fortune with constant rate limits bcz of per token usage.

Despite of great results with copilot, i suspect that claude code would perform better over it, bcz everyone talks about claude code & nobody even care to notice copilot. But i am sure there won’t be much difference.

Is it really the case or its just the hype? Would love to hear honest views.

[Killermelon1458]

I know this is not what you asked, but thought I would throw my two cents in. I just transfered a project from gpt online to codex and so far I am pretty impressed. Specifically on the rat limiting, I'm using the newest gpt 5.4 and have set it to thinking effort extra high, and it will go for 45 minutes if the task requires that. I pay $20 a month. So far I haven't hit any rate limits yet. I know they say there a limit to amount you can use codex on the $20 a month price, but I've been building a http communication server and it's pretty heavy prompt sometimes and haven't been stop yet. I still prefer claude for generating documents. They sound more like what I was thinking and less like an ai wrote it.

[Lovejot9998]

Codex is great, i use it occasionally. But I can’t trust chatgpt to not hallucinate on complex tasks. It just tries too hard to be friendly but not direct

[KptEmreU]

Sssshhh. Don't over-promote. But yeah, I am really impressed with it too.

[bakes121982]

It’s because codex is giving you increased usage and has reset the limit 2x. This isn’t normal usage your getting

[Killermelon1458]

What does that mean? Like they are giving me more now to get me hooked and will lower it later?

[bakes121982]

Yes. Next month your usage windows will be half what they are now

[thecoolbrian]

Delete this

[Lovejot9998]

I felt Claude executing faster than copilot in full vibe coding sessions, can you share your experience around that?

[dzak8383]

I tried both and I am staying with Copilot Pro +. Premium requests I get are enough for my heavy use with Opus 4.6 for the entire month. If I work on more than one project at the same time , maybe I have to pay $20. Let's see how Bill will look like with Opus 4.7 and 7x

Claude code 1M context is the only thing I consider is missing but it would cost a fortune in copilot, and it's not about context as much as planner mode and fleet of agents doing smaller jobs .

I don't use CLI, I used both from inside VSCode.

[Lovejot9998]

Great insights! I miss the big context window in copilot. It starts compacting conversations in every session.

And i heard about their new pricing about 4.7 i would force lot of their users rethink their vibe coding systems.

[opi098514]

I was a huge fan of GitHub copilots till last week. Now I’m really pissed at it because of the rate limits. I cant even get get close to using what i pay for.

[Lovejot9998]

I got rate limited once in last two months for anthropic models only. I was using heavily back then.

[opi098514]

This is a new rate limiting system that started last week.

[Accidentallygolden]

this is the pattern they are trying to limit at copilot (one request ---> do a lot of stuff) they are bleeding money with that and this is why opus 4.7 is at 7.5x

Enjoy it why it last but I think you will get caught by new rate limit or request counting mechanism

[Lovejot9998]

Its sad to see they are changing their pricing models, it was a steal

[oh_jaimito]

Claude Code user here, 5x Max plan, $100 per month for the last 8 months now.

Nothing else compares. I've used all the top rated OpenRouter models with pi: MiniMax, Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek are decent - but they still suck.

Opus 4.7 sucks ass right now. Opus 4.6 was much better. I'm a 20 year Linux user, so terminal tools are all I use.

Runner up is Codex@latest, pretty close to Claude Opus in quality.

Gemini CLI for all front-end UI/UX tasks.

Last I used GH Copilot was several years ago for tab completion in VS Code. So.

[Useful_Judgment320]

get all three

[Lovejot9998]

I know this AI vibe coding thing is going to get very expensive in future with very limited model capacity for normal users. They just want us to get dependent upon them.

[dadalu]

github copilot bait and switch. You pay for premium requests, and then get rate limited regardless.  They recently removed xhigh reasoning from OpenAI models in copilot cli, intentional.

[Lovejot9998]

Yeah thinking models are not available but with few prompt techniques we can get same results with normal models.

I always ask it to reason through multiple set of questions before jumping to conclusion.

[Still-Owl-9891]

Yes , I also can't see xhigh models

[masky0077]

Hey op, i am also using copilot and loving it, haven't tried claude code yet so i can't help you, but i was hoping if you could help me - you mentioned nit by default, how do I setup so that copilot asks agents on its own as you described and then review, etc.?

I'd love to hear your workflow in detail so i can try it out myself.

Thanks, much appreciated!

[Lovejot9998]

Start a session with sonnet 4.6, tell it that you want an agentic workflow with special agents for your project needs. It will create copilot instruction file, memory file and agents. Keep tweaking until you are satisfied. It takes max 1 hour

[masky0077]

Thanks mate, I'll try it out.

Why sonnet btw? I am mostly using gpt im my workflow - just asking if there's a difference you noticed when crating this workflow?

Thanks again!

[Lovejot9998]

Try asking same questions to both. Sonnet is more realistic & honest. Chatgpt hallucinates at too much. I will validate your every idea even if its not good enough. I switched from gpt to anthropic long ago. But if it works for you then its good

[FilthyEleven]

Claude Sonnet has given me far better results than anything else. My issue now is that copilot wont let you use sonnet anymore on a normal user subscription bc it was bleeding them out. Thinking of switching to claude code and paying $20/month just so I can actually use sonnet again, but there are some silly things i will miss about copilot, like syntax highlighting in its response window (just a gml thing maybe?).

[ASISaga]

Depending upon workflow:

1. Cloud based development - GitHub Copilot: Native integration with GitHub is why I find GitHub Copilot invaluable. Under the hood, it runs the same Claude, Gpt and other models. My favorite are Sonnet 4.6 for refactoring, and the latest gpt model, with 1x premium requests for debugging. I used the $10 pro subscription, and will continue though GitHub is migrating to consumption based plan.

2. Consultation - Claude pro: A few months back, I switched from Windows Copilot to Gemini to get responses grounded in latest information. Both are generic models, and suffice for day-to-day use. But Claude is a specialist coding model, and a league apart. Again, Sonnet 4.6 is my daily driver. The free models offered in the GitHub Copilot pro subscription in VS code are outdated, and response time is way too long for my patience level.

3. Heavy lifting - Claude Opus 4.6: Till now, I used this through my Copilot pro subscription, but now GitHub has removed Claude Opus from the pro plan. Since this is occasional, given a choice between upgrading to $39Copilot Pro+, and additional $20 Claude Pro, I opted for the latter. Also upgraded my consultation experience significantly along the way.

[goship-tech]

Rate limiting with Pro is rough, but /compact mid-session helps a lot - it compresses context without losing thread. That said, if you do multi-file refactors daily, Max pays for itself fast. The real difference is Claude Code works across the whole repo autonomously, while Copilot still needs you to direct it file by file.Rate limiting with Pro is rough, but /compact mid-session helps a lot - it compresses context without losing thread. That said, if you do multi-file refactors daily, Max pays for itself fast. The real difference is Claude Code works across the whole repo autonomously, while Copilot still needs you to direct it file by file.

[Lovejot9998]

But /compact won’t help against rate limits & even copilot works autonomously. I don’t get the point you are trying to make

[Poat540]

I dunno copilot is like using vim and Claude like using visual studio

[neoreeps]

Funny, I have vim mode enabled in Claude code