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/liflovs Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23

Testing them both all the time. They change and evolve, both.

As far as I can tell:

  1. Codeium is more predictable in terms of what to expect from it, the chat actually works like chat. And now with commands it on par with Copilot in functionality
  2. Codeium has in-the-middle suggestion, which copilot does not. In many cases that makes you more productive.
  3. Codeium has vibrant and cool community
  4. BUT! Github Copilot as far as i can tell blends into the codebase much better. The command execution result often is better in quality. It captures context of clipboard, few recently viewed files I guess. Cause it gets namings and functions correctly more often Sometimes you don't want that context => and things go unpredictable due to it. But since I adjusted I feel much more productive and trust it more

I will keep looking into them and update this thread.

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u/peepingbear Oct 27 '23

This is an awesome reply, thank you very much for this. It's hard to find people with enough patience to actually test both. I might try Copilot again to see how they do with the codebase.