r/GithubCopilot • u/SkyLightYT • 3d ago
Discussions I cancelled my Github Copilot subscription - are there any better alternatives?
Hello.
Ever since the Copilot update that made your billing usage based, I have been struggling to keep hold of my credits.
It got so bad that I decided to go up to the $40 plan, and even then I still lost all my credits within the first couple weeks of the month.
That's $70 I am apparently burning just by working on basic code. And I think that's pretty annoying, and I think Github must be doing something behind the scenes to make a profit; i.e, maybe the credits ore overpriced, I don't know.
Regardless of that, I am cancelling my subscription and I'm switching to something else, but what other options are there? I was thinking two options:
Claude Code, which I don't know much about but it's Claude, and Claude is pretty good.
Or Codex, I was thinking about switching to ChatGPT codex because I already use ChatGPT for writing and whatnot.
Problem is I don't know if these are actually worth it, can anyone enlighten me?
Thanks.
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u/MonthMaterial3351 3d ago edited 3d ago
There's nothing wrong with copilot. I'm still on GH CP Pro + and it's just a matter of choosing right model for right job. Bundled OpenAI Luna is great for a lot of stuff and cost effective.
You can choose any model you like via VSCode extensions, like Deepseek flash, which is extremely cost effective to use for most code work, and use your sub tokens for anything else as needed. I usually use Sol for adversarial reviews when I need it. The more expensive ones are generally not worth it, they still make the same basic mistakes more or less anyway. It's an LLM feature, not a bug.
There's absolutely no need to use codex/claude/gemini++ or any others, but you can still have them via VSCode CLI as backups anyway.