Stop wasting your Copilot requests on Claude Opus

If you&rsquo;re still defaulting to Claude Opus in GitHub Copilot, you&rsquo;re probably burning quota for very little in return. As of April 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 costs 3x requests and Claude Opus 4.7 costs 7.5x . Meanwhile GPT-5.4 is still 1x , even if you push reasoning effort all the way up to xhigh in VS Code. That cost gap is enormous, and I don&rsquo;t see anything close to an equivalent…