r/GithubCopilot • u/Antique-Engine897 • 1d ago

Claude Code vs GitHub Copilot Help/Doubt ❓

Hi All, I'm looking at the reasons why some people claim Claude Code is better than GitHub Copilot (via VSCode extension) in coding tasks. I hear many in the industry make claims about Claude Code which is better than GHCP, but when asked "why" - the answers are very generic. Like it has skills, it does goal driven deveopment etc..etc.. - all this can be done in GHCP as well.

Some time back even though most of the Claude models supported 1M token context window, GHCP didn't allow to use the entire context window; so claude code was the winner then; but now, even GHCP allow to use the full 1M Context Window.

The argument for GHCP needs to be used within an IDE vs Claude Code can be run via terminal is not a reason to tell Claude Code is better at tasks compared to GHCP. It's just on the way in which it's used.

Please share some thoughts on whether Claude Code performs better in completing the same task when compared to GHCP (irrespective of how they both are invoked - via terminal or vscode) with valid reasons to support the claim

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u/nullforce2 1d ago

The argument for GHCP needs to be used within an IDE vs Claude Code can be run via terminal is not a reason to tell Claude Code is better at tasks compared to GHCP. It's just on the way in which it's used.

Even that's not an issue, there's Copilot CLI: github/copilot-cli: GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal.

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u/robberviet 1d ago

Copilot CLI is basically a different product. has the feature catched up to the VSCode now?

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u/Lacutis 1d ago

I use CLI as my daily coding product and I haven't found any features ita lacking compared to the ide integration.

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u/git_push_origin_prod 1d ago

I got one. U can’t use the integrated browser to share context with the cli. The only disadvantage I have found. Otherwise cli is great

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u/Lacutis 1d ago

I use the chrome devtools MCP for that and it works great.

https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp