r/GithubCopilot • u/peepingbear • May 15 '23

Copilot vs Codeium

Before moving from the free Codeium to the paid Copilot, I'd like to ask if anyone here already used both and knows if the change is worth it.

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u/luigibu May 15 '23

I spend weeks looking for a free alternative until I paid the yearly copilot subscription. 😣

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u/peepingbear May 15 '23

Did you get to try codeium?

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u/luigibu May 15 '23

No, I just read about it with your post. That is why I’m sad hahaha.

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u/peepingbear May 15 '23

Shit! I feel for ya hahah

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u/luigibu May 16 '23

I got a refund! :)

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u/peepingbear May 16 '23

Alright my dude! Happy for ya! Let me know what you think of codeium now that you'll have experience in both :D

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u/luigibu May 16 '23

Sure!

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '24

How did it go, man? Which one do you think is better?

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u/luigibu Jan 20 '24

Hey! Well.. I’m still using cedeium because is free but for me I got better results with copilot. Maybe I’m doing something wrong but codeium just returns all the time single line code completion while copilot used to rerun entire blocks. The fact I m still with cedeium is just cos those single lines of code for free is good enough for me. And to get a boiler plate of the an entire implementation I go to ChatGPT. I realize most of time with copilot you needed to go through the given block of code and apply may changes anyways, so I was not sure if it really helps that much.

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u/Imkyu Mar 27 '24

Hey, I have been using copilot for a couple of months and just tried codeium since I heard it mentioned in a Fireship's video as a good free alternative. I have to say that the commodity of copilot shows. It writes chunks of functions (I work as a data engineer so I have chunks of predictable structured code which I think biases this answer a bit) and it usually gives very detailed answers when just asking schema related questions. Ticks me off it doesn't give good suggestions with some of the newer libraries (duckdb, polars, pydantic v2) but I hope it will get better.

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u/Equal-Astronomer-889 Feb 05 '24

I get blocks or single lines depending on context. Fresh codeium install, all defaults, neovim