GitHub Copilot
35 pts
0 wins
VS
👑 
DeepSeek
95 pts
4 wins
🏆 Overall, DeepSeek offers more free value (4/6 categories)
📊 Side-by-Side
Category
GitHub Copilot
DeepSeek
Free Tier
✅ 2000 completions/mo + 50 chat messages/mo
✅ 50 requests/day
Free API
❌ None
✅ $5
Rate Limit
N/A
2 RPM
Open Source
❌ No
✅ Yes
Free Models
1
4
GitHub Stars
-
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🧠 Model Details
GitHub Copilot 1 models Copilot (GPT-4o based)
Free tier: 2000 code completions per month
DeepSeek 4 models DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Released April 2026, 1.6T param MoE (49B active), 1M context, thinking/non-thinking modes
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Lightweight V4, 284B params (13B active), 1M context, excellent value
DeepSeek-V3
Previous flagship, still available
DeepSeek-R1
Reasoning model, strong at math/code