Claude Code vs GitHub Copilot

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14

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GitHub Copilot leads this matchup, with an overall score of 62 versus Claude Code's 43, and it shows up in 60 of 70 answers compared to Claude Code's 40 of 70. Head-to-head, Copilot is named more often on 13 questions, Claude Code on 2, with 5 ties. Copilot scores highest with Perplexity and Gemini (68 each), while Claude Code's best result comes from Claude (53). Both tools go unmentioned for "best run locally for privacy," but Claude Code is also absent from beginner, free, and open-source questions, where Copilot still appears.

Head to head

metric	Claude Code	GitHub Copilot
score	43	62
questions won	16	18

By assistant

Claude Code

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	49	65% of answers	#3.2
Claude	53	75% of answers	#3.8
Gemini	5	10% of answers	#8.0
Perplexity	46	55% of answers	#2.3

GitHub Copilot

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	65	90% of answers	#3.6
Claude	54	85% of answers	#4.9
Gemini	68	100% of answers	#4.1
Perplexity	68	75% of answers	#1.7

Where they differ

Only Claude Code gets named for

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Only GitHub Copilot gets named for

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