I use copilot cli and I can pick Anthropic models. The Microsoft interface seems fine to me, and equivalent. Not sure what the big deal is.

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gwerbin 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Funny I had the opposite experience. The Claude models seemed equivalent to GPT-5.4/5 in a generic harness like Copilot CLI or Opencode or Pi, but Claude Code the app/harness is so much better than all the others that I switched at work, even though I'd much prefer to use a non-proprietary harness (and eventually I do want to get Pi set up to be comparable).

	▲	fortran77 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, maybe I shouldn't have assumed the harness wasn't a big deal. When Microsoft changes its pricing on 6/1 I'll try some of the others.

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krzyk 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Harness makes a difference. Also in copilot you have smaller context for Claude models.

And you get a token based pricing since June 1.