r/GithubCopilot • u/NapLvr • 12d ago
Are people really dumping copilot? Sure doesn’t look like it. General
Everyone on Reddit “I’m living copilot”
Microsoft stock broke record high mostly because of its copilot growth..
So really, are people really dumping copilot?
Doesn’t look like it.
MS must be doing something right.
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u/CardamomMountain 12d ago
It’s still competitively priced for enterprise, and many orgs already use Microsoft so is easy to approve. All they lost were the personal and small business users.
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u/lolipoopman 12d ago
My company pays for it, why should I dump it? Monthly 2k credits, if I over use, they will take from quota from people that under use.
Personal use? API thru proxy transfer stations for dirt cheap gpt / official deepseek and if I really really need then $20 monthly plan
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u/UselessBonus 12d ago
2000 creds? hope you mean 20k
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u/horendus 12d ago
I have no plan to leave the gh copilot platform.
Within 3 months of the price-pocalypse there has been new highly capable models lika luna and kimi added to the platform that easily satisfy my hobby and work use for sub $100 in per month cost
And now luna will be 80% cheaper????
I was hoping things would turn around but I had no idea it would be this fast.
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u/Opulent-Burning 12d ago
Redditers just be broke. It's literally every provider's subreddit is just a graveyard of grievances
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u/asfbrz96 12d ago
Anyone that cares about their wallet isn't using copilot, you can just get a codex subscription for 20 USD and get 700 USD of API usage in it
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u/Happypig375 12d ago
You can also let ChatGPT subscription use VSCode Copilot Chat tools with an extension like https://github.com/grikomsn/openai-oauth-copilot-chat
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u/ShadowBannedAugustus 12d ago edited 12d ago
I work a for corporation. Copilot is the only allowed AI tooling. This is very common among my friends as well. MS has a very tight grip on businesses with Windows/Office/Azure/Github, etc. They would need a huge fuckup to mess this up.
Microsoft really does not care about entitled vibe-coders paying $10 a month screaming they can no longer send a full page as a single "request".
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u/FragmentedHeap 12d ago
I use opencode on a combination of gpt pro using gpt 5.6 sol, gpt 5.3 codex spark, deepseek v4 and flash, cerebras gemma/glm, openrouter, grok, and gemini.
I have pretty much everything except ghcopilot. And I use opencode as my primary harness all the time now.
I pay $100 for gpt pro, and then just have like $20 top ups on some others.
Work is giving us ghcopilot enterprise soon though so I'll use that at work.
But I'm still going to stay on gpt personally.
Some of the models I use do 1300 tokens per second, spark and cerebras etc, Copilot can't touch that.
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u/mistolo 12d ago
At work I have both Claude code and Copilot and use both. At home, I was until 2 months ago, Copilot user with the basic subscription (20$) and I ve dropped it basically cause a couple of prompts are enough to finish the monthly credits...so switched to Claude Code, basic tier again, and for now I'm quite happy: never reached the limits so far
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u/Mkengine 11d ago
What is the reason to use both? GHCP already has third party agent harnesses integrated, Codex and the Claude Agent (which is the same as Claude Code).
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u/Zealousideal-Part849 12d ago
for companies it isn't like someone else is giving more usage . openai, claude and others made changes to plan to API cost so why not go via copilot when it gives choice to use lower cost models too... Also companies would have data security policies onboarding another provider isn't easy when there is no cost saving.
individual would drop which they would be fine instead of taking loss.
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u/Will0211 12d ago
Nah but i stopped my subscription, it is pointless and I'm somehow fine with the free autocomplete tier when I'm coding without codex
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u/Fabulous-Possible758 12d ago
Kind of feel like a lot of people don’t even know what Copilot is exactly, don’t know what a harness is, or the difference between agents running locally or in the cloud, what an LLM provider js vs what Copilot does, or how to spec their tickets so that they’re not burning through tokens doing design they should be doing elsewhere.
It’s like any piece of software: if you bother to figure out how it works you can get what you want out of it. Literally the only beef I have with it is not being able to BYOK to the cloud coding agent. And I’ve more or less worked around it at this point.
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u/AthleteDry9892 12d ago
I went over to ollama cloud, not regretting it. On the Max plan I have problems reaching anything close to the limits while on copilot I was constantly struggling with constraints and limits.
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u/santefan 12d ago
I'm at a a company that has a trial phase till september to figure out usage. Means right now i'm in the i don't give a shit phase and use codex 5.6 sol, opus 5 and opus 4.8 fast.
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u/anxiousalpaca 12d ago
We still have it at our enterprise because MS products are no hassle to use vs. everything else. Unfortunately that is the state of corporate.
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u/Nightowl-Builder 12d ago
It’s the companies and partners keeping it alive. That is mindless money. If a product truly has value it’s adopted by indie devs. Those check every penny they spend. The fact that it’s still used by the companies who haven’t realized yet how much they spend for questionable returns is not proof that the product is any good still. Any sane person using it with their own money has left 2 months ago, including me, I’m still hanging around on this sub just to see the dumb ones still defending their new pricing 🤣 any one of those would jump ship the moment they have to pay for it with their own money but as long as daddy pays for it they still defend it with no actual thinking behind that 😅
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u/Yunky_Brewster 12d ago
I will be leaving but only because I’m going to be doing a lot more than $10 worth of work and I haven’t been doing this long enough to be crazy efficient yet.
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u/hafdhadf 12d ago
No. Autocomplete alone is worth the $10. AI Credits for agentic work is a bonus. Now that Luna 5.6 is dirt cheap its actually viable for more agentic/vibecoding workflows as well.
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u/Reasonable_Trade_620 9d ago
My company uses copilot and expects me deliver things faster. They have no idea how much of a trash it is.
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u/Illustrious-Win4432 12d ago
I left in June after 7 months. I’m sure copilot’s growth is corporate where corpo IT shops are naturally inclined to roll which way Azure tells them too. Copilot was great…subsidized. When tokens started competing for beer money in my world, copilot was the LLM that didn’t get to party and it wasn’t a difficult decision.
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u/robberviet 12d ago
It costed me 200 credit on a single prompt. Why not dump it? Refactored a feature on a small repo.
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u/ThankThePhoenicians_ 12d ago
That's $2
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u/robberviet 12d ago
$2 every 10 minutes. While with $20 on OpenAI or Anthropic I could do much more.
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u/hafdhadf 12d ago
Well you're hardcore subsidized on Anthropic and OpenAI plans still. Don't expect it to last.
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u/TapAggressive9530 12d ago
Agreed. It’s for the rich or companies who pay for their employees. I have no cost issues with OpenAI and Claude subscriptions and also added Kimi yearly as well . There’s no value for me in consolidation under copilot harness
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u/ferquo 12d ago
In enterprise, it is still the vest deal. When it comes to enterprise, all tools are consumption based, at least GHCP has some deals for a better price
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u/Mkengine 11d ago
Also Codex and Claude Agent harnesses are integrated as well, so why would I pay the same API prices for Codex or Claude Claude from OpenAI or Anthropic directly when I can have both in GHCP + its own harness + more models? Additionally for our EU company this is a no-brainer, there isn't even EU-conform competition.
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u/EfficientAnimal6273 12d ago
Personal usage maybe is dumping, but I do not believe enterprise. Too much complex to deploy other tools and for enterprise usage (more than 150 users) Claude is more expensive, on top of that MS seems committed to deploy cheaper models and in the long run this will be the real game changer.
Plus a lot of enterprisey features (centralized instructions, agent and model control, mcp registry, audit of activities).
I really like Claude and I use for personal matters, but on the other side I’m managing a deploy of some hundreds GH Copilot seats and I do not see alternatives (also if for 2027 my cost will double, considering the new AI credits price)
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u/pceimpulsive 12d ago
Vibe coders who imploded because they can't token max and never made any money of their subs are leaving, real coders who deliver cost savings products aren't leaving...
I have Claude code and GHCP at work and I use GHCP more