Head to head
Anthropic's terminal-first coding agent — the tool that defined the agentic CLI category and still drives the most spend on the board. Versus: gitHub's assistant grown into a CLI agent — the default choice for teams already living inside GitHub. Below: how they compare on the facts, and on real usage from ccusage data submitted to the leaderboard.
| Claude Code | GitHub Copilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | GitHub (Microsoft) |
| Pricing | Included with Claude Pro ($20/mo) and Max ($100–$200/mo), or pay-as-you-go via the Claude API | GitHub Copilot subscription tiers, from free with limits to Pro+ |
| Models | Claude models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) | Multi-model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) |
| Devs on board | 1,083 | 2 |
| Top spender | $208,978 · 268.5B tokens | $74,057 · 103.1B tokens |
Where do you land?
One command reads your local Claude Code and GitHub Copilot logs and puts your real usage on the board — code and prompts never leave your machine.
npx viberank-cliOn the Viberank leaderboard, Claude Code currently has more developers submitting real usage data (1,083 vs 2). Adoption shifts monthly — the numbers on this page update from live ccusage submissions.
Claude Code: Included with Claude Pro ($20/mo) and Max ($100–$200/mo), or pay-as-you-go via the Claude API. GitHub Copilot: GitHub Copilot subscription tiers, from free with limits to Pro+. The real answer depends on your volume — heavy agentic use can be worth thousands per month at API-equivalent prices, which is what makes flat-rate subscriptions such an arbitrage. Run npx ccusage@latest daily to see your own numbers.
Yes — many developers on the board do. ccusage reads local logs from every supported agent, and a single npx viberank-cli submission records your usage per tool, so your profile shows exactly how your spend splits between them.
Numbers come from developers who submit their ccusage data to Viberank — real token counts and API-equivalent costs computed from local session logs, validated server-side. It measures actual usage, not marketing claims.
Related reading: Codex vs Claude Code vs Gemini CLI in depth, what Claude Code actually costs, or which subscription your usage justifies.