Flow

Libertarian, AI/ML Specialist, EE, Atheist

[Flow @flowVSgravity]

Deep comparison of all Agentic Providers
Github Copilot increased prices from June on, hiking their 39$ subscription to up to 30,000 USD monthly!
So what are the alternatives, can we reduce spendings, is using opensource an option, local models, how does Claude, Codex and Cursor compare to Copilot today ?

What is the cost ?
Let's assume 1 hour of inference on a good model (like GPT 5.5) per day for 30 days - on an average codebase.
Copilot cost: 4000$-8000$ per month
Codex cost: 100$-200$ per month
Claude cost: 200$ per month
Cursor cost: 500$-2000$ per month

The Codex cost is fluctuating between 100 and 200 USD, it depends on the random regular limit resets.
Claude comes with stable 200$ a month, Cursor is expensive for frontier models and will cost up to 2000$ if you insist on good model quality.
Copilot costs 4000$-8000$ - in June around 4000$ but the "flex credits" are no promised to last, so it can easily double to 8,000$ next month.

The copilot cost MIGHT increase by another 30% due to inefficiencies in the Copilot harness, it is designed for a flatrate and not for conservation of tokens.

BYOK alternatives
Thankfully, if you log of Github completely you'll suddenly change the Copilot chat extension into a "BYOK" mode.
GLM 5.1 is around Sonnet level, below GPT 5.5 reference. Deepseek V4 Pro is also strong.
What is the cost?
GLM 5.1 Plan: 15$-50$ per month
Deepseek Pro: 200$ per month

Winners and losers
Loser Overall: Copilot, 300+ times more expensive
Winner Budget: GLM 5.1 - Sonnet quality for 30$
Winner Premium: Codex - best for complex work
Second Place: Claude - best for frontend work
Middle runner: Cursor - only if you use Composer 2

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You are talking to who ? Anyone sane has left your scam service 2 weeks ago.
You have a couple enterprises left that are searching, a few amateurs who did not use your coslop since June and a few annual clients who stay as long as the rate limits are not even more unbearable as they are now.
Copilot is dead, and you’ve lost the good will of an entire generation of developers. Greedy bastards

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@EC_AVService Eventually all companies will ban EU from their AI products. It’s not worth the trouble and unethical requirements

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@Pirat_Nation Google will just disable the AI for Europe then.
Apple did the same, everyone will eventually ban Europe from AI products.
It’s not a continent you can seriously consider for AI

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@MicrosoftAI There is not one person I’ve heard about who is using that model. It’s supposed to perform better than Claude haiku, which is a model nobody would seriously consider for coding.
wtf is that intended to be useful for?

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@BullTheoryio EU does the same. And it goes a lot deeper than just phones. They also do it with AI

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@msdev Poor developers. Worked for months on this and the greedy bastards at Microsoft have increased the copilot prices from 40$ to 14000$ monthly just 2 weeks before release.
Time for a new job

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@MOSSADil Looks like Allah in person is coming at them 💦

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@GHchangelog The status of all our copilot sessions is “permanently suspended”
Did you really think we would be up to pay 10 grand a month for an AI chat service ?
What world do you live in.
You’ve lost the worlds goodwill

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@EU_Commission Insane

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@visegrad24 Italians probably start to understand how life was in the Wild West during the US settlement periods.

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@LangChain Dystopian

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@Azure Anywhere but Microslop.
They would charge you for your liver and lungs to write a prompt, if they could.

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@code Just 4k USD and you can try it for an hour. Nice value proposition

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@PalmerLuckey Palmer reminds me of Musk in his ability to point on an opportunity and then get things done.
His flaw is to speak too open for public ears, but didn’t manage to stop his success so far.

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@Skint_Eastwood1 The fascists that rampaged your rights during Covid never were reigned back for their human rights abuses. So they are now the norm.

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@github @AnthropicAI @code Just 3790$ per hour of copilot use.

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@euronews All Apple has to do to use such AI is to spy on every single poor fucker living on the European continent and provide that material realtime to the EU offices.
It’s their decision

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@TheAppleDesign You should feel happy for them, less surveillance

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@TRobinsonNewEra The only people left in that country without any weapon, are the remaining native brits

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@jdverolme If it came to the EU it would come with extreme surveillance, the AI Act enforces that.
It would mean the literal end of all privacy on your phone.
So better hope it won’t come ever