Move your team from GitHub Copilot to Claude Code.

Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Claude Code — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in GitHub Copilot is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.

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Interactive chat replAgent mode in ide

The closest analog to Claude Code's default agentic loop (plan → tool calls → file edits → bash → iterate) is Copilot's Agent mode: select 'Agent' from the chat-mode dropdown in VS Code (also in Visual Studio and JetBrains). Agent mode plans multi-step tasks, edits across the workspace, runs terminal commands, and iterates until the goal is met — exactly like Claude Code, just embedded in the editor instead of running as a terminal app.

Gotchas

Warning: Each Agent-mode turn consumes Copilot usage; as of 2026-06-01 monthly plans meter this as token-based AI Credits (annual Pro/Pro+ keep the legacy premium-request multipliers until renewal). Claude Code instead draws against your Claude plan's weekly hour caps with a rolling session window.
Warning: Claude Code offers explicit permission modes (`default`, `plan`, `acceptEdits`, `bypassPermissions`) and per-tool allow/deny rules; Copilot Agent mode approves at the action level but does not expose a global plan-only mode.
Warning: Claude Code has built-in sub-agents (Explore, Plan, general-purpose) that fork context; Copilot Agent mode runs as a single session.

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Plan and pricing gatingPlan pricing gating

Claude Code is included in every paid Claude plan (Pro $20/mo, Max 5x $100/mo, Max 20x $200/mo, Team $20-25/seat, Enterprise $20/seat + usage); no free tier. Copilot tiers (verified 2026-07-04): Free, Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Copilot Max $100/mo (new highest individual tier), Business $19/seat/mo, Enterprise $39/seat/mo, plus free Student access. As of June 1, 2026, Copilot moved all plans to usage-based billing: each plan includes a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits (1 credit = $0.01), metered by token consumption at listed API rates — Pro 1,500 credits/mo (1,000 base + 500 flex), Pro+ 7,000 (3,900 + 3,100 flex), Max 20,000 (10,000 + 10,000 flex); Free gets 2,000 completions and Student unlimited completions (auto model selection only). Code completions and Next Edit suggestions stay free on all plans; credits do not roll over month to month. Claude plans instead cap by weekly usage windows (one all-model, one Sonnet-only) reset at a fixed weekly time.

Gotchas

Warning: Copilot's billing migration completed on 2026-06-01: monthly plans are now usage-based (GitHub AI Credits, $0.01 each, token-metered, base + flex allotments where flex adapts to model pricing); the legacy premium-request model survives only on annual Pro/Pro+ until term expiry (with increased model multipliers from June 1), after which they drop to Free or convert to monthly with prorated credits. Plan migrants comparing older docs should price the usage-based state.
Warning: Business ($19/seat) and Enterprise ($39/seat) prices are unchanged, but included AI-credit amounts ($30 and $70 per user/mo, pooled across the org) are promotional through August 2026 — reprice after that. Copilot code review consumes BOTH Actions minutes and AI Credits.
Warning: Sign-up pauses persist: per GitHub's 2026-06-01 changelog, new sign-ups for Copilot Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max remain paused ('reopen in the coming weeks' — existing subscribers can still upgrade to Max); self-serve Business sign-ups for GitHub Free/Team orgs paused since 2026-04-22. No confirmed resumption as of 2026-07-04.
Warning: Anthropic does not publish exact hour quotas for Pro/Max plans publicly — the source of truth is the in-app `/usage` and `/status` output. Only Team/Enterprise quota ranges (~50-95 h/wk Sonnet, ~3-7 h/wk Opus) have surfaced in support articles.
Warning: Setting `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` in Claude Code overrides plan auth and bills the API account at PAYG rates (Opus 4.8 $5/$25 in/out per MTok, Sonnet 4.6 $3/$15, Sonnet 5 $2/$10 intro through 2026-08-31, Haiku 4.5 $1/$5) — an option Copilot does not offer end-users.

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