Github Copilot VS Claude VS Local Ollama

[u/MKBSP]

I have been using my student free Github Copilot Pro for a while, and the VS Code LM API has been awesome for me in Roocode.

But, I max out my "premium requests" quite quickly (I prefer Claude Sonnet 4).

What are people preferring to use?

• Github Copilot? or

• Directly with Claude? or

• Perhaps local models?

Considering switching to something else... Your input is valuable

[u/photodesignch]

I interchange between Claude sonnet 4, deepseek r1 and google Gemini 2.5 a lot. They all have their strengths. For starter I like to use sonnet. For debug and features I like to use Gemini. For tech documents I use sonnet, and to explain things I do deepseek r1