I've set up a small rig, mostly settled on Qwen3.6 and I'm slowly adding features myself. It probably can't compete with Claude. I don't even know, I've stopped checking. It's providing a ton of value to me as is, and it only keeps getting better. All it takes is to realize that it doesn't actually matter if the grass is (maybe even objectively) greener somewhere else. Feels so good to know that it won't change under my feet. I've got this amazing, highly extensible tool, and it's mine.

Unfortunately the June pricing change for Copilot forced me personally as well as my entire department at work to switch to Claude Code. With copilot we were hitting a few dollars of extra spend over the included credits in April and May, then in June we started chewing through the monthly budget every 2-3 days.

Just a completely insane price hike from the customer's perspective, I don't know what MS were thinking there.

Even if that is the price they need to be sustainable they should have waited until the competition changed their prices first. I wouldn't be surprised if Copilot lost 50% or more of their customer base last month.

Eventually this could be where all the major players set their prices, so the thought occurs to me that nations should run some form of "public access AI", just like they did for TV. Use the free open models and use tax money to finance a few datacenters. Geo-lock the use and set strict throttles to manage load, but let school children and citizens use that AI freely otherwise.

If Copilot's pricing is the level for all AI in a few years, only the unicorn companies can afford to use them, and everybody else has no chance of competing with a company that can use AI.

However, last month they introduced a new pricing model ( I know the old pricing was not sustainable), and my USD 10 was exhausted within days. Because of that, I switched to Claude Code and Codex and have never looked back. Yes, tokens on Claude Code and Codex are subsidized heavily, but let's just enjoy when good things last.

I do feel there is a difference between using Claude via Copilot versus using Claude directly in Claude Code. I'm not sure what Microsoft is doing behind the scenes.

The performance, if we trust the benchmarks, put it at Sonnet 4.6.

Let’s see if it’s worth it with GitHubs pricing.

Cache hit (most important): $0.19

Output: $4.00

This is the same as how much Moonshot charges for it, and it puts it at roughly the price of GPT 5.4 mini, not a bad option.

For some context here is a stupid prompt that wastes tokens: "Play a game of tic tac toe against yourself on a 5x5 board, you need 5 in a row to win."

It costs $0.006 on Kimi K2.7, and you get to see the whole raw reasoning trace.

GPT-5.4 mini costs $0.016 and its summarized.

And in case you are wondering both play incredibly stupidly.

Kimi:

      A   B   C   D   E
  1   .   .   .   .   .
  2   .   .   .   .   .
  3   X   X   X   X   X
  4   .   O   O   O   O
  5   .   .   .   .   .

  1: X X X X X
  2: O O . . .
  3: . . O . .
  4: . . . O .
  5: . . . . O

We're sticking with Cursor for now, using Kimi as our daily driver (branded as "Composer").

Saw in a discussion on Reddit that the team is evaluating glm5.2 so hopefully more to come!

Has their reputation tanked so much that the alternatives get all the buzz? Or is it that non-enterprise users are priced out by the usage costs, so no free marketing?

https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimi-k2p7-code

I don’t know much about them but they did a deal with Microsoft in March:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-fireworks...

The company does need to integrate the new AI-human-machine interface into its application development SDKs.