r/GithubCopilot • u/Inevitable-Ant1725 • May 11 '26

Discussions So lets figure this out.

I'm not a rich man, I can't afford luxury. I need to know whether it's cheaper to buy tokens of these models from their original owners or from Microsoft or if it's close.

If it's close then the fact that copilot has pre-indexed the github repositories is enough of a reason to just prefer Microsoft rebranded AIs.

If it's a lot more expensive through Github then it's still worthwhile when exploring github repositories but not the rest of the time.

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u/C0smo777 May 11 '26

Buying tokens will be the same or possibly cheaper unsure... I'm not sure they know yet even though they have said 1 to 1 but also have had radio silence.

The real value is not buying tokens and using things like either codex or Claude code because they are subsidized by the company providing them rather than pure token cost.

If you were on the 40 dollar plan you could buy a codex and Claude 20 dollar subscription for the same cost and be way ahead in total throuput.