Copilot vs Claude Code: Which burns fewer tokens under identical conditions?
alex_bababu · reddit · 2026-09-02
The author is evaluating GitHub Copilot against Claude Code for team use, noting slight cost per token differences. They seek insights on real-world token efficiency when using the exact same model and repository with identical instructions. Key questions include how prompt caching, context assembly, and system prompting overheads impact actual token burn in practice.
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