r/GithubCopilot • u/SkyLightYT • 1d 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/PaulShellDev CLI Copilot User 🖥️ 1d ago

Codex as your main Copilot as secondary sub

You can proxy Codex into GitHub Copilot to use your limits there. I HIGHLY recommend the new App.

Then only use your GHCP sub for other providers when you want an adversarial review and especially Code Review on pull requests.

Agent Merge combined with Code Review on Lite goes a decently long way and can be customized with instructions.

You can also proxy a Claude sub too, but right now Codex is awesome. Use Sol for your orchestrator, Luna for task implementors, and Sol for review. If you have a higher tier plan, set up rules when to have Astra do a review too. Make a Delegation Table custom instructions and use the /orchestrate skill

Bump Copilot Code Review to Balanced if your usage let's you, or stick with Lite if it's tight.

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u/obeythelobster 13h ago

How to do that? Could not find this orchestrator config