GitHub Copilot vs Codeium — I Used Both for a Month. Here's What I Actually Think.
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The AI coding assistant market split somewhere between "pay for quality" and "free is good enough." GitHub Copilot sits squarely in the first camp. Codeium decided to be the second. I've spent the last few months switching between them on real projects - not s, not tutorials, just actual work. Here's what I found. What Each Is Trying to Do GitHub Copilot is built on OpenAI's Codex (and increasingly GPT-4 class models) with GitHub's