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I Stopped Paying $240/Year for AI Code Completion — These 4 Free Tools Do 90% of It

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I paid for GitHub Copilot for two years. Last month I cancelled, replaced it with a fully free, mostly-local AI coding setup, and tracked my acceptance rate and latency for 3 weeks. Conclusion up front: the free stack covers ~90% of what I used Copilot for, and it's not the 90% you'd expect. The 4…

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  1. 2026-09-13 23:00 · DEV Community — AI
    I Stopped Paying $240/Year for AI Code Completion — These 4 Free Tools Do 90% of It

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