GitHub Copilot vs OpenCode: Which AI Agent Is Better?
An in-depth comparison of GitHub Copilot and OpenCode across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
An in-depth comparison of GitHub Copilot and OpenCode across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
Either way, you pay for the model calls. A median coding-agent day on our gateway is 95 requests and 8.6 million tokens. The table prices every step at one model’s rate.
Both run on Standard Compute, where each step goes to the cheapest model that can do it: routine steps go to efficient open models, hard ones to frontier models such as Claude Fable 5.1 or GPT-6 Astra.
| Model | Typical day | Busy day |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $7.34 | $59.10 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $3.67 | $29.55 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.23 | $2.43 |
Fixed monthly plans from $19. Eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute first, no card. Trial terms
Pick a winner in each category. You can change your vote anytime.
CopilotOpenCodeChoose GitHub Copilot if you are teams already in the GitHub ecosystem who want seamless AI integration. Choose OpenCode if you are terminal users who want a polished AI coding interface with LSP support.
In our editorial scoring, GitHub Copilot leads in 4 of six categories (output quality, reliability, speed and ease of use), while OpenCode leads in 1 (value). On price, GitHub Copilot runs free tier / $10–100/mo (ai credits) and is proprietary; OpenCode runs free (mit) / free zen models / go $10/mo and is open source.
What it costs to run Copilot or OpenCode
Best API for Copilot →
5 options compared, with prices and limits
Best API for OpenCode →
7 options compared, with prices and limits
Standard Compute sends each step to the cheapest model that can do it, on providers we vet for price, uptime and speed. Plans start at $19 a month, and eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute with no card. Choose your agent below to connect.
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More on Copilot: Copilot AI Credits Ran Out: What Changed and What to Do · Copilot retires Claude Opus 5, Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Terra on November 16: what changes and how to keep using them
More on OpenCode: OpenCode Pricing: Plans, Subscription and API Costs (2026) · How do I use DeepSeek in OpenCode?
GitHub Copilot is the most widely-adopted AI coding assistant. It offers inline code suggestions, chat-based assistance, and tight integration with the GitHub ecosystem including pull requests, issues, and Actions. Available in VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, and more.
OpenCode is an open-source (MIT) AI coding agent best known for its terminal TUI, now also shipping a desktop app and IDE extensions with OpenCode 2. It connects to 75+ LLM providers through models.dev, has LSP integration for real code understanding, and runs several sessions in parallel. The tool is free; for models you bring your own key, use OpenCode's free Zen models, pay as you go on Zen, or subscribe to its Go plan ($10/month, Go Plus $40).
Copilot and OpenCode both run on Standard Compute
