Copilot is the low-friction default (in the editor you already use, $10-$39); Max is the specialist buy ($100-$200 for the best agent). Copilot's premium-request allowances suit autocomplete-plus-occasional-agent patterns; they're exhausted quickly by real agentic sessions, which is exactly where Max's Claude Code earns its price.
This comparison is maintained by Standard Compute — we sell a third thing entirely (unlimited tokens at a flat price, paced under sustained load, from $9/mo), so we have no horse in this particular race and keep both sides honest. If neither plan above fits because the meter itself is your problem: the full comparison including us →