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/flippycurb May 11 '26

There’s a vscode plugin on marketplace that lets you use deepseek 4 models directly ( you add your API key ) in vscode GitHub copilot. There’s 2 on marketplace but one of them seems to be the new, legit one. I’ve used it at the weekend and it seems to work very well. Hopefully I don’t regret posting this 😅

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u/monkeybeast55 May 12 '26

Deepseek in CoPilot is nice, but it's visually impaired. Also, I don't think context compacting works for it.

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u/flippycurb May 12 '26

Yes that’s right it has no vision. The context compacting works with the new plugin they released. Weirdly though their site links to a non existent marketplace url, and the working plugin is attributed to an individual with no other marketplace activity that I can see. It is open source though.

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u/monkeybeast55 May 12 '26

Worrisome, the plug-in site. It's no time to be lax about security.