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Copilot Alternatives for VSCode

GitHub Copilot Alternatives for VSCode

1/10/2026

  • GitHub copilot with Claude Opus 4.5 is best for paid enterprise plans.

  • Copilot with GPT 5 mini next best free, but rate limits.

  • VSCode extension Continue with openrouter and model Grok 4.1 Fast next best as replacement for Copilot but costs $0.10/day and limited to trial of $1 before paying.

  • VSCode extension Continue with openrouter and free model (Devstral 2 2512, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B, gpt-oss-120b) may be next best.

  • VSCode extension Continue with Ollama service running locally and llama-3.3-70b or codellama is not very good but free for local.

  • You can monitor your Activity and credits here.

  • When configuring the model for "Apply" in Continue, either use Devstral 2 2512 or Morph: Fast Apply

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Continue.continue https://ollama.com/download/windows https://openrouter.ai/models?q=free

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