Poolside vs GitHub Copilot
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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GitHub Copilot
GitHub's coding assistant and agents, now billed in AI Credits
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Laguna S 2.1 and XS 2.1 weights free on Hugging Face (OpenMDW-1.1; older XS.2 and M.1 Apache 2.0), free OpenRouter endpoints, Poolside API free for a limited time | Copilot Free: 2,000 inline suggestions a month plus limited chat and agent usage, no card required; free Student plan for verified students |
| Paid from | From $0.06 per 1M input tokens on OpenRouter, with Poolside's own API free for a limited time | $10/month (Pro, 1,500 AI Credits); Business $19 and Enterprise $39 per seat a month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 4.7m+ paid subscribers |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 |
| Maker | — | GitHub, Inc. |
| Verdict | Poolside has become one of the more interesting open-weight coding labs. Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B mixture-of-experts model with 8B active parameters and a one-million-token context, its weights are downloadable under OpenM... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot is still the lowest-friction way to add AI to the whole workflow: completions in almost every major editor, agents that work from issues and open pull requests, reviews on github.com,... |
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