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DeepSeek vs GitHub Copilot
Compare DeepSeek vs GitHub Copilot: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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Free tier
Fully free in the consumer app
Free for verified students, OSS maintainers; 2K completions/mo for everyone else
Standard plan
API only — API only
Pro — $10/mo
Top plan
API only — API only
Enterprise — $39/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$0.27 Best
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API output / 1M tokens
$1.10 Best
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Capability
Context window
128K
128K Best
Max output tokens
8K Best
4K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
Live (web)
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
70% Best
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Math (AIME 2025)
72% Best
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Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
73% Best
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Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1356 Best
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Features
Image input
Partial
Partial
Voice mode
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Partial
Web search
✓
✓
File upload
Partial
Partial
Image generation
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Code execution
Partial
Partial
Agent / tool use
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✓
Persistent memory
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Partial
DeepSeek
Open weights. ~20× cheaper API than GPT-5.2. Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations for some.
GitHub Copilot
Most-installed coding tool. IDE-integrated across VS Code / JetBrains / Visual Studio. Cheapest at $10/mo. Configurable backend (GPT, Claude, Gemini).
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