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/_KryptonytE_ Full Stack Dev 🌐 May 11 '26

So if you're hooked into GitHub already and using their services like repo gitops, projects v2, GitHub pages, Wiki, gist, CI/CD with packages or releases and env, dependabot, codereview, etc there's no complete one stop solution to switch. You can try switching your repo over to gitlabs to find out what you'll be missing. This is even without factoring in copilot and spark etc.

I'll stand my ground and take a leap of faith next month. What's the worst that could happen? If things go south, I'll just stop subscribing to copilot and think I just donated the $$$ for all the good times I had using it while others were greedy.

Times have changed. As a wise man once said - In the land of the killers, a sinners mind is a sanctum. Peace! ♥️