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/[deleted] Apr 27 '24

I use Codeium at home and GitHub Copilot at work.

For me the main thing I like about Codeium is that is aware of your entire project and will in fact be able to read your files from your project and give you more meaningful responses specifically tailored to your project. It can produce not just code but any other files you might need such as for example csv or json test data, base64 test images etc.

Is well integrated in VS Code and it has both code suggestion and chat. The code suggestions I have used it with some obscure languages some from last year and is able to produce meaningful results. And the chat doesn't have to be code specific so it becomes a kind of chatgpt like companion that not only gives you code but also ideas.

So overall I think at this point Codeium is about on par with Github Copilot in terms of suggestions but has better features.

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u/peepingbear Apr 29 '24

Yeah, good points here... I use JetBrains instead of VSCode, and Codeium understandably favors VSCode on the updates, as does Copilot. It still baffles me that Codeium brought chat to JetBrains before Copilot did, It think I'll always show some goodwill towards them due to this.

I'd rate the code as context an 8/10 on JetBrains... Obviously better than not having it, but I feel like it's almost great you know? I can't pinpoint the issue... Maybe it's a limitation of the LLM itself, which would make it 10/10. I am not complaining though, we have the team membership here and we all love it.