Why hackers moved from GitHub Copilot to Claude
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I just switched from the $10 Copilot subscription to a $20 Claude subscription to get general AI and coding in one bill.”jareds, 2026-04-21original comment ↗
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GitHub Copilot vs Claude
| GitHub Copilot | Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 3 | 24 |
| Hackers who criticize | 6 | 25 |
| Moved away from it | 5 | 13 |
| Moved to it | 1 | 11 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of GitHub Copilot
“it likes to use cloud models and burn tokens sometimes”selicos, 2026-09-17original comment ↗
“I was shocked to realize how difficult it has been to have a GitHub CoPilot license on Azure.”sntran, 2026-06-02original comment ↗
“Opus was the reason I paid for GitHub copilot, but they had the pricing model completely wrong.”jeremyjh, 2026-04-23original comment ↗
“But letting it write the actual code was a mistake.”mcv, 2026-01-22original comment ↗
“I switched from Copilot to Cursor at the end of 2025, and it was absolute night and day in terms of how the agents behaved.”deanc, 2026-01-07original comment ↗
Praise for Claude
“those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui”nsonha, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“I recently switched from Codex to Claude”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
“I absolutely love Claude's coding capabilities”pid0x17, 2026-09-15original comment ↗
“claude was able to diagnose that the 2013 rail is around 11.44v (outside of the 10v range iirc)”jlawrence6809, 2026-09-02original comment ↗
“So far all the suggestion that Opus 5.0 offered me, always aligned with what i wanted.”benjiro29, 2026-08-13original comment ↗
Other moves from GitHub Copilot
Other moves to Claude
- ChatGPT → Claude (3)
- Claude Code → Claude (1)
- Codex → Claude (1)
- Cursor → Claude (1)
- Gemini → Claude (1)
- OpenAI → Claude (1)