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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing #192948
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Okay, with this change, will you at least bring back Opus since we're all paying for this again? |
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This is IDENTICAL to my up-to-the-minute experience and deep annoyance. I am already looking to move to a different product or solution altogether. I started this today on an agent chat describing how confusing and nonsensical the Billing and Billing History pages are, the usage reports, budgeting -- all of it. It didn't take long for these companies to gouge the F out of devs and others. |
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i'm with you on how confusing and nonsensical the Billing and Billing History pages are, the usage reports, budgeting. |
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I think they just want profit, they don't care about the server being down, they only care about money, they are very rude. |
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GitHub is changing Copilot to a usage-based billing model because the tool has evolved from simple code completion into more advanced AI-powered, agentic workflows that require significantly more computing resources. Under the new system, basic Copilot features like code completions and Next Edit Suggestions will remain unlimited under the existing subscription, while advanced features will be measured using GitHub AI Credits based on token usage and model type. This shift is not a direct price increase, but heavy users of advanced AI tools may see higher costs, while lighter users may experience minimal impact. Unused credits will not roll over, and annual plans are being phased out in favor of monthly usage-based billing, with dashboards introduced to help users track spending and usage in real time. For reference and web development testing purposes, you can also view related project implementation examples here: Pakwin777. |
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WEEKLY LIMIT REACHED ! can not even use GPT 5 mini or Rapor |
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At least bring back Opus 4.6? 4.5? |
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They're priced at the same as Opus 4.7 though, so there's no point. |
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So, can the Pro version still use 4.6? |
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People online say that Opus 4.7 uses more tokens per request on average than 4.6, so it's not quite obvious what is better. |
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Nyooooope. From the article that we are all discussing:
Huh, that's weird. I feel like I would have noticed that. Okay, let me click it. Ah, okay. If you have Changelog emails turned on, or follow their Blog, you may have noticed a changelog entry titled Claude 4.7 is Generally Available" and, like me assumed "okay, they released 4.7 for Copilot, I'll check the multipliers later." Wait, but they said they informed us that Pro users would lose access? I don't see anything like that after skimming through the changelog. Well, if you actually read the entire link at a snail's speed, you can sort of cobble together what Microsoft PR tried to do 11 days ago. It seems like they are not going to be providing any Opus models (the biggest visible announcement in that changelog was that Opus 4.7 would be provided at a promotional multiplier at 7.5x for a few weeks, making several users assume that it was a typo -- surely it's not correct that the regular multiplier rate will be 22.5x?) Well, it's worse, it's actually 27x. To go back to @M4XEURS question, a few days after they posted the announcement about Opus 4.7, all Opus models were silently removed from Copilot. We're on version 1.0.39 and I remember 1.0.36 already didn't have them. So where was this notice they talk about? Well, I've read the changelog three times to make sure I didn't miss anything. It appears that what they mean by "we announced in our changelog" is two sentences, one of which is buried in the second paragraph and the second appearing after a subtitle and a video. If you read them together, you might divine the meaning. It's a sneaky attempt, but Microsoft still has a lot to learn from BP and Shell. I can see their thinking though, this is exactly where someone looking for answers as to why Opus suddenly disappeared from their paid Copilot version would look first, in their "Opus 4.7 is now available!" email. @M4XEURS these are the sentences they expected (edit: they obviously didn't and just buried the announcement) you to add together and after a few minutes' of mental arithmetic come up with the conclusion that all Opus models have been removed from Copilot Pro.
If you scroll past all the crap following the paragraph, you might notice:
And if you combine the two sentences together in your mind, then drop the "assume good faith" thing Wikipedia has been teaching us, you might come to the conclusion that Opus models are going away from Copilot Pro plans. Ah, yes. Clear as mud. I don't know about all you dullards, but I know that if my software is losing a major feature, there is nowhere better to announce it than by sandwiching it into a a "changelog" about a NEW feature. Can't wait for the email from my toaster manufacturer with the subject "Congrats! Your toaster now consumes 45% less electricity!"
This was your notice: 
I have never seen a company be so blatantly disingenous with their customers. Forget evil, this is less malice and more incompetence. It's like the VP of Communications found a copy of Catch-22 on the table at Starbucks and read it as an instruction manual. "Oh, you have an annual subscription? We're not raising prices, we're simply telling you that you now have 33 Sonnet 4.6 premium credits instead of 300! We didn't remove your access to 4.6, we simply "consolidated" it into Opus 4.7 (note; you will not have access to the "streamlined" Opus models, even if you previously did. Where did we announce that? Well, in the changelog that implied you'd get access to Opus 4.7, obviously.) You know, I understand companies can be evil, or rather that I should not expect them to act in by best interests. I even understand that at $8.33/mo on an annual Pro plan, you will need to change something so you're not losing money now that LLMs are expected to be agentic, call tools, have a larger context windows and take longer autonomous actions on one request. I got my annual subscription in August of last year. By December, I realised they would not be offering a $10/mo subscription if one premium credit could mean anything from "List the first five prime numbers" to "Why Darmok and Jalad at Kalenda's? Why not Darmok and Kalenda at Jalad's?" to "Create an MVP of Amazon for dogs, including all the specs of a physical product like an Amazon Dot, so that any time the doggo wants treats, they can just boop the "treat button" that instantly dropships dog streats. Finally, when MVP is done, send an email to the top VCs in my area. Make no mistakes." I have three months in my annnual plan. I just figured that they'd let me ride out the rest of my few months -- what would it cost to them to have three months at the old cost, and simply give the new cost to new/monthly customers? Obviously for the tail end of the distribution quite a lot, but consider the PR and reputation loss from this cluster.. vs. the number of companies who would actually trust Microsoft more if they honoured their commitments. They could still switch most people, who are on monthly plans! (btw, @microsoft, we actually have something in common: I also am really bad and marketing and not knowing what my users want. Can I get hired? From what I've seen over the last 48 hr I wil fit into your company culture perfectly and I'm pretty sure you can just give me production access on the first day. Don't worry, I know the Status/Outages page must stay super-hidden, I got you.) Anyway, for anyone on a Pro plan this is your notice that your Opus models went away a few weeks ago. Sorry, I meant were consolidated into a model you don't have access to. You know, if you any of you fall on hard times you practice that in the mirror next time you consider robbing a house:
I don't really have anything further to say. If you've read this far, congrats, I guess? And may god have mercy on my soul for making you do so. |
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Github to Pro users: Sorry sir/madam, this is only for paying customers! |
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Can I request a refund for the remainder of my annual plan? I've stopped using Microsoft GitHub Copilot altogether. |
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is a refund available to google play subscribers? |
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Hi @Shah-Nisarg, yes a refurn is available for Google Play subscribers, but I believe it needs to be processed via GitHub Support and is not self-serve. We're looking into this and will comment here again with specific guidance |
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How can an annual user convert to a monthly subscription? I haven't seen a clear way yet. If you want to cancel and renew your monthly subscription before May 20th, but it seems that once you cancel, you won't be able to subscribe anymore, or should you wait for a channel to convert after June 1st |
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I had a dig around for this too it's in Billing & Licensing -> Licensing and then on the right you'll have your subscription and a 'Manage subscription' drop down. If you click on that you can switch to monthly billing or request a refund. Probably wait until June to do any changes or I guess you won't get any pro-rata credits. |
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Literally why they're increasing the annual plan's premium usage request. In hope that they can screw people over hard enough that they cancel the annual plan so they stop loosing money on the old billing model. Disgusting practices |
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Is there a benefit of using the Copilot Pro+ at 39$/month instead of using the Copilot Pro at 10$/month and paying for extra usage? |
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Yeah it's tough to see what the $10 gets you as the credits don't rollover vs. PAYG with Claude etc. Maybe it's basically just convenience with different model access? |
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yeah as far as i can tell reading into all the posts.. all you get for pre-paying $39 is the privilege of talking to opus or GPT 5.5.. No real value adder.. I agree that the existing requests system was broken.. but I think this is essentially losing 90% of the value. For me the ability to choose different models was cute.. but not helpful.. often just increasing confusion. |
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For those dont understand what's happenning, Github is charging you 39$ to start using high tier models and 10$ to start using rest. If you surpass that $ amount you pay the extra, if you didn't its all gone....simple ! |
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Guess I should have said 15x ... |
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@OotTheMonk Everything is going to go this way at some point. Subscriptions are heavily subsidized at the moment, which is a major reason why neither OpenAI nor Anthropic are profitable. It works while they're growing and investors are throwing money at them, but it isn't sustainable. The API pricing is closer to what it actually costs them to provide the service, but as far as I know even the API prices aren't profitable at the moment. I think Github Copilot moving towards being more like a PAYG plan is probably the beginning of an industry-wide movement over the next year or two. |
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how much would be the cost of the tokens? now premium request is 0.04 USD, is it going to be same or 1 million token will be around 10-20 USD and will we have any information how much token agents are using? |
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I expect that there will be granularity down to the penny for billing. So, let’s say Pro at $10/mo gets 1000 AI credits. You ask a question that uses $3 of API billing, so it charges down your AI credits by 300, so you’re left with 700. For some context, a single session with something like Opus or GPT-5.5 while doing a plan and implement can easily run into the realm of $30-40. For context, I did a plan of a pretty substantial feature today using API billing and Opus and it cost about $35 for that single chat session. (This was in Claude Code, not Copilot.) With the pricing change, unless you use a ton of autocomplete suggestion stuff in your editor and that’s your main surface for interacting with Copilot, or if you have no other option at your work but to use Copilot, you’re better off with almost any other plan. If you like GPT models, that means going to OpenAI directly, or if you like Claude models, Anthropic. I’m sad this change is happening, but I am not surprised in the slightest. I can only imagine that agentic workflows have GitHub hemorrhaging money, and while Microsoft did invest a lot in OpenAI, they are still apparently dealing with API pricing for the models GitHub serves? I think the only way a company can be competitive and offer a substantial value to compete against “Just to pay for the API yourself” is to train and serve their own models. We’ve seen that happen with Cursor, and I expect we’ll see more. (I thought that was the intention of Raptor Mini, but who knows what happens with that now.) Also, the fact that the “AI Credits” expire at the end of the month means you’re almost certainly better off just going to the API providers directly and just paying there. If you use less than $10 or $39 in inference with your AI Credits in a month, you’d bet better off just paying à la carte API prices. Now is a good time to start experimenting with agentic harnesses that aren’t connected to a specific provider’s service. (Things like opencode, for example.) Luckily the open weight models are getting better and better with each release, and hopefully we’ll continue to see reasonably priced API access for those continue. |
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I installed Claude Code and Codex VS Code extensions. Much better experience consumer wise. |
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But if someone is already invested in the vscode/github copilot ecosystem, they could always use bring-your-own-model-key (BYOK) and have API pricing of the model provider directly. So even if it is a price increase, it is still quite flexible. |
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You have the flexibility of paying more in every single other scenario, congrats |
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@science64 I made github.com/PanAchy/copilot-arewecooked as a way to get a sense of what your cost will be starting June based on your historical usage. |
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tengo una suscripción Copilot Pro o Pro+ y organizacionalmente cuento con todos los servicios Microsoft Copilot 365, como aplica esto para mi. |
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Machine translation:
@Omar5962, these changes aply to GitHub Copilot and not to Microsoft Copilot 365 services. Machine translation:
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u forgot an p there in reality it is "apply" |
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I'm a bit confused by this. I currently have CoPilot Pro which gets me a set number of Premium Requests. Under the new system, that gives me US$39 a month in AI Credits. How is this different? Is this a shift to some kind of time-based system where requests that take longer cost more? What does this mean in plain language? |
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Wow, what a bunch of greedy Fuc*ers |
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Good Ole Claude just recommended this for me lol. Roo Code (VS Code extension — already in your VS Code marketplace) Reads files, writes files, runs terminal, chains tasks — identical to Copilot agent Cursor ($20/month flat) Windsurf ($15/month flat) |
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Mark, we should trust your free gift aftyer you called us greedy fuc*ers? lol (jk) |
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Regarding Roo Code (which I haven't used yet): just watch out for a (short?) potential rough time while the previous teams hands over to a new community team (link). |
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I'm using cline - its good - you just have to be very organised, and set rules up. but with the addition of deepseek v4-pro you can spend ~$4-5 developing out a complex feature with a claude like model, then 80c getting deep seek to implement - If you are very brave you can ask deepseek to do it all for $1. I just implemented ~4000 lines this way, overall its okay; needs a bit of tidyup but it does work. |
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I have a pro+ plan, I used 4.6 opus before it got removed, now trying out gpt codex 5.3. If I use let's say 90% current premium request during a month, how much would this cost me extra? Anyone know any estimates or will premium request still be included so I still get my 1500 request ? |
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Opus 4.6 will soon cost 27x after June 1. So you'll get roughly about 140 or so requests a month of opus if my math is correct (3900 AI credits/mo. ÷ 27)? |
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But if we pay as we go, with a large project will that not cost shit load of $$. I can use gpt 5.3 codex aswell but worried that pay as you go will cost thousands of $ vs 1500 premium request |
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Yes. |
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Yeah… I think folks are going to be in for a shock when the “usage cost preview” lands in May. If you’re doing agentic coding, where you set an agent on a task with a checklist or plan and then let it run for 10-15 minutes, something like 5.3-codex can easily burn through $10-15 in API credit costs, or if using 5.5 or Opus, think $30-40. Literally a single prompt could eat your entire allotment of “AI Credits”. I’m curious to see how they will handle it if a task isn’t complete. Will they do like Anthropic and stop the agent cold, just failing halfway through, or will they allow the agent to at least finish? |
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Will there be changes to allow a single GitHub account to have both an Individual Pro/Pro+ subscription as well as a seat assigned by one or more Businesses or Enterprises? Or do individuals still need to create a separate GitHub account for each to prevent the wrong Business being charged, or being charged for personal use? |
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Hi there 👋 Copilot Pro or Pro+ cannot currently be used on the same GitHub account that also has a Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise seat assigned. For now we recommend using separate GitHub accounts to keep personal and work usage clearly separated and to help avoid any unintended billing confusion. |
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That's not what the documentation recommends.
The whole way Copilot is billed and managed goes counter to that recommendation. |
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Will unused AI Credits roll over into future months or are the first $10 or $39 in AI Credits a "use it or loose it" scenario? |
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The fact they openly just agreed that "Yes, it's usage-based but.. if you don't use it, we're going to take your money anyway" is such a POS move. |
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It is like you expect someone with brain-defect to accept this deal. Bullshit! |
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@nardobarbosa Are unused AI credits at least applied to other users usage? The answer to that question should be added to the FAQ. |
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The linked blog post speaks about "pooling" in the context of business plans, not individual plans. The way I get that is - during the month - there's a pool of credits that can be used by many users, whether high-usage ones or low-usage ones. Not sure if that's what you're referring to. |
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I was also thinking that it has been mentioned that a new billing tool will be available at the beginning of May. That should show your hypothetical spending in past months, would the usage-based billing already have been in place. |
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Removing the free models destroys any value in the individual plans |
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I might just unsubscribe because of this very reason! Copilot was the only sensible package provider, but seems they want to follow in others footsteps! Maybe the change might be better, but removing free models. I am out! |
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I was always saying that the problem with other AI is that in the middle of a project you run out of credits and don’t even get code completion. |
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So what are you using today? |
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I was relying on gpt-5 mini after the requests were depleted. I already have codex and claude subscriptions. Only kept copilot because of free models. Now I wont need copilot and will move to some other provider which provides fixed number of calls rather than token based usage. |
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You can enable budgets on your account and keep working even after your premium requests have depleted (until you hit budget quota you set for yourself). This is how I figured that Pro+ will be more cost efficient for me based on budget I burned beyond normal Pro subscription request allowance. This is actually GREAT experience and I always felt sorry for users of other coding agents, who got overcharged beyond what they planned to spend on a single beefy prompt. |
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Someone mentioned here that Deepseek V4 is dumb. So I was trying to fix a very complex bug between C++ and Rust "joinery" at RPC protocol, and got a migraine. 😆 So then I fed that to GPT 5.4, guided it carefully. It cooked for a long time, ate my daily limit till 0% and aborted everything, saying "No luck, I am walking circles, no idea, sorry". Deepseek just did it. Take that, not-so-open-ai! |
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Hail kimi, minimax, deepseek, Grok! Perhaps local models + skills, wiki. |
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as a yearly plan subscriber, I do not see the metered alternative on https://github.inkcoo.com/settings/billing; how am I supposed to tell whether at my usage level it is better to cancel and go monthly, convert to monthly, or wait until my plan expires? |
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to clarify: I do see "Current metered usage $0.92" at the top, but when I go to Copilot usage / View Details and land at https://github.inkcoo.com/settings/billing/usage?period=3&group=2&customer=7155002&query=product:copilot, I see that the copilot portion is calculated as 4 Copilot Cloud Agent requests * $0.04 + 13 Copilot Premium Request * $0.04; that is, the price is still per premium request, not per token. |
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^%$#, I decided to cancel my yearly subscription and go monthly, but it turns out this is not an option because sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Pro and Pro+ are paused 😩 this is the most stupid way to lose a paying customer. |
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update: I thought github copilot no longer allowed people to sign-up for the free plan, but apparently cancelling from the yearly plan drops you into the free plan! so it's not that bad! |
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If you have literally 0 commits in your account here, please don't tell us
about your phenomenal experience.
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Developer here with 15+ years of experience working for some of the
biggest companies in the world at a very high level of authority/seniority.
Personally, I dunno what all the complaints are about frankly. Maybe from
vibe coders who don't know how to do software development themselves. I
just Copilot Pro+ solely for agentic coding. I use GPT 5.3 Codex on XHigh.
It's a phenomenal experience and I can't feed it enough serious work to
exhaust my monthly allowance. I don't use 5.4 cause it goes "overboard". I
don't use 5.5 cause it's 7.5x and unlikely to be much better. And I don't
use Claude cause 5.3 codex works great for me and there's no reason to
experiment with something that's currently 15x (and when I signed up was
like 3x). I really don't know what the hell people are working on and what
kinds of prompts they're using and what they're generating but I'm working
on serious enterprise applications and it's all good. I will give it a
functional spec that I'm 100% certain on, ask it to write the technical
spec. Technical spec defines contracts, interfaces, etc. It will come back
with what it wants to change in the repo. I'll be like "yes, no, change
that". When I'm good, I'll say "go do it". It will do everything almost
exactly as I asked. Then I'll ask for a few amendments here and there and
job done, and those amendments are my luxury cause I can say to it to go do
it and I don't have to make them myself. And all this doesn't use many
requests at all. I reckon the people complaining are people who couldn't
write software themselves and ask the model for 50,000 changes just cause
they never thought things through properly in the first place. I dunno what
my token usage will look like in the new billing model that's coming but if
it skyrockets the price then I'll just use Codex from OpenAI and port all
my repo memories etc over to AGENTS.md files etc. Also, a ChatGPT
subscription for $20/month or even $100/month is nothing for the
productivity boost. Go consider hiring a software developer, it will cost
you thousands per month and will do a crap job. People are really
ungrateful.
Also I dunno why there's so much rage towards GitHub. They charge
$10/month or $39/month. Their current billing model (requests) can end up
costing them thousands of dollars in tokens from the model providers. They
are ultimately a business, not a charity. You can continue using copilot,
cancel your copilot subscription, just connect to your own model with your
own key and pay the cloud provider yourself. You'll see how expensive your
usage is pretty quickly. I don't know why people feel entitled for GitHub
to subsidise their vibe coding.
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not to argue because not really worth our time and it's my employer paying for this crap anyway, but i don't agree those are fair analogies. ISP...you're paying for internet service, not search result service. So, internet goes down, you're not getting the service you paid for. Google search not being perfect isn't the same because you didn't pay for Google search service, you paid your ISP for high-availability access to google.com. If Google search sucks, then you move on to Bing or whatever. Mobile phone...you're paying for cellular access...can't make a phone call for four days, you're not getting the service you paid for. Your analogy suggests the service we pay for with Copilot is compute time on their servers. why would we pay for that? that's part of their biz cost, but not what the service people are paying for. we aren't using AI models as a form of gambling...spend some tokens and maybe it'll pay off. the service is the AI result that's supposed to make us more efficient, not the compute time. that's the consumer value. it's the company's problem if their compute time costs too much relative to perceived consumer value of their service. not the consumer's job to pay for their compute time if the results are not valuable to the consumer. or, at least, let's say if that is going to be the biz model, then consumers have to judge if they find ROI in the Copilot result. if not, they leave and Copilot goes out of biz. i cannot imagine anybody is just cool with paying for compute time for funsies. anyway...my opinion...have a nice weekend! |
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FWIW, I appreciate the more thoughtful reply. I will just offer that while the refund idea could be complex, the alternative is that people leave because they don't see the value proposition. No ROI for consumers = no revenue. I feel like a lot of people are giving AI models some sort of handicap because AI is the shiny new toy, but ultimately, it has to be a tool that consistently enough provides value for the cost. otherwise, i'm paying for an experiment and that's not the consumer's job (that's for Wall Street speculation and government investments). Individual consumers will have to determine what "consistently enough" means to them relative to their cost. for me, you can blame the models or the interface, it doesn't matter...i pay for the end result and if that end result isn't value added then i stop paying. |
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IDK man, to me that's exactly what writing with an LLM looks like. And since the people started gaming the system (agentic workflows running for half an hour on a single prompt/request) the casino had to adjust the odds in their favor 😉 And if you don't like the utilities analogy, perhaps imagine copilot as an intern. Are you not going to pay them when they deliver subpar results? And this pricing model change can be viewed by similar lenses. Imagine instead of paying per-hour, you'd enter into an agreement with "an intern agency" that you pay per-task. By the end of the day, interns still get paid by the hour, but the agency cushions the cost, taking the same amount of money regardless of how long did the task take. Surely you can start asking yourself "why would I pay the agency now, if they start to charge an hourly rate as well" and it's a genuine question. I don't know, convenience? I probably wouldn't and tbf I don't personally subscribe to GHCP or any other LLM provider plan. I do have access through a business account so I know what's what and how it can be abused. Trust me, I did. |
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yes, i would fire the bad intern. :) |
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'intern'? They didnt market their model like that, especially after each update |
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This is horrible. A real failure and missing the mark on User Experience and satisfaction, Microsoft. I join my fellow GitHub Copilot paying customers in saying that this is absolutely outrageous. |
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I've already cancelled my pro subscription. I have 10% premium left and it told me I can't use the system because of some weekly rate limit. |
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Bro get Cursor. Vs code cloned and has Sonnet and all models . 20 bucks a month. I have used 12 hours a day for 7 days and used 12 percent. Just make sure if you go local to go to tailscale and turn on tunnel. I usually don't go all out there but the price gouging became ridiculous. |
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Now despite at 90% premium, I have been blocked because I used up my "weekly" allotment or some nonsense So basically, I can't use what I paid for. |
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How come it dropped from 2,000 to 1,500? Doesn't this kind of arbitrary change violate the agreement?
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It's been 1500 for quite a while now |
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This is gutting, and makes me want to write a follow up to this blog post I wrote about how good Copilot was compared to Claude https://jch254.com/blog/anthropic-pro-vs-github-copilot. Sad times to lose access to Opus without ridiculous multipliers, I have been experimenting a lot with 'meta-prompts' - essentially a prompt file which classifies the model to use and enhances implementation prompts for that model. Opus really doesn't need to run everything and is overkill for a lot of implementation. |
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My issue has not been resolved yet. Could you please look into my support ticket at your earliest convenience? |
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"I’m planning to switch to Codex. Copilot’s pricing has forced me to look for more economical alternatives. I’m a creature of habit, so the main reason I’m breaking away is that the 'sting' has become unbearable." |
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Cursor....hands down. |
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Nerf 1M context model at 400k, auto compress trigger at 200k. I dont think the new usage based billing will help you lol |
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It is beyond ridiculously expensive now. I'd rather purchase a subscription elsewhere. Goodbye. |
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You're just spouting the M$ corporate doublespeak. M$ can afford all the infrastructure in the world as a multi-billion dollar corporation. This is all just a way they can fleece consumers.
Man, it is so hard --- my "yearly quota" has been met on the Sparkle Pen/Generate Commit Message all of a sudden, and the GitHub Copilot Chat window refuses to answer any and all prompts.
I am like someone who used to be in the land flowing with milk and honey and then I got kicked out of Paradise. I don't care what Microsoft's new model is, I seek a means to restore my access and usage of the GitHub Copilot feature set.
Regards,
Brian Hart
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GitHub is changing Copilot to a usage-based billing model because the tool has evolved from simple code completion into more advanced AI-powered, agentic workflows that require significantly more computing resources. Under the new system, basic Copilot features like code completions and Next Edit Suggestions will remain unlimited under the existing subscription, while advanced features will be measured using GitHub AI Credits based on token usage and model type. This shift is not a direct price increase, but heavy users of advanced AI tools may see higher costs, while lighter users may experience minimal impact. Unused credits will not roll over, and annual plans are being phased out in favor of monthly usage-based billing, with dashboards introduced to help users track spending and usage in real time. For reference and web development testing purposes, you can also view related project implementation examples here: Pakwin777 https://pakwin777game.pk/download-and-install/.
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no fuck little extra privilege fro pro🤣 |
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Hello GitHub Community,
Today we announced we are transitioning to a usage-based billing model for GitHub Copilot, effective June 1 📆 Please refer to the blog post for the full announcement link to blog, and you’ll find an FAQ below.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is GitHub changing the Copilot billing model now?
We’re making this change now because GitHub Copilot simply is not the same product it was a year ago—it now powers far more complex, agentic workflows that consume far more compute. This change is designed to deliver a more sustainable and reliable product experience by aligning pricing to actual usage and costs.
Isn’t this just a price increase disguised as a billing change?
The per seat subscription cost of GitHub Copilot is not increasing, and code completions and Next Edit Suggestions remain unchanged. Users with intense agentic usage will likely see an increase in costs because those features consume more compute. With pooled entitlements, organizations that use Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise may see their total charges reduced as entitlement pooling balances more active users with less active.
This just wiped GitHub’s value moat – why should I stay?
We believe GitHub Copilot remains the best value and experience for agentic coding. Usage-based billing aligns cost more closely to actual usage and value, while continuing to offer developers the freedom to choose the models and agents that work best for them.
Will there be any free models anymore with this shift?
With the shift to usage-based billing, free models are no longer part of our offering.
If we run out of AI credits mid-month, does Copilot stop working?
If your entitlement and set overage budget is fully consumed, you can continue to use Copilot for code completions and Next Edit Suggestions but will have to wait for your entitlements to reset, purchase additional usage, or upgrade your plan to use other features. We’ve built usage surfaces that show your consumption as a percentage of your budget and in dollar terms so you can track usage as you go and plan accordingly.
For Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users, notification at various consumption levels will be sent to your GitHub admins as your entitlements are drawn down. With pooled entitlements, all included credits are pooled across your business. This means power users can draw more when they need it, and lighter users offset the balance.
How can I forecast our AI spend if the bill changes monthly?
We’re rolling out a preview bill experience in the coming weeks to show all users how their costs may shift under the new billing model. This will be available to users via their Billing Overview page when they log in to GitHub.com.
We currently use PRUs for some features, how does this change that?
With usage-based billing, we’re replacing PRUs with a new unit called GitHub AI Credits, which are based on the tokens your interactions consume and priced according to the listed API rates per model. All features aside from code completions and Next Edit Suggestions, which remain unlimited, will be measured and billed in GitHub AI Credits.
Will Actions minutes consume my AI Credits?
Your monthly bill will include both the total cost of your token usage and Actions minutes consumption.
Additionally, Copilot code review recently moved to an agentic architecture that runs on GitHub Actions, and starting June 1, 2026, reviewing a pull request with Copilot will count against your included Actions minutes at the same per-minute rates as any other Actions workflow.
I’m on an annual plan, how does this affect my billing?
We’re retiring annual plans. If you’re currently on an annual plan, you’ll continue to use PRUs until your subscription expires. After it expires, you’ll be moved to a Copilot Free plan unless you sign up for a new monthly paid subscription.
While you can keep using your annual plan until it ends, we’ll be updating model multipliers for PRUs when our new billing model goes live on June 1. We recommend switching to a usage-based monthly plan on June 1, and we’ll provide credits that reflect the prorated amount left on your annual plan subscription.
How are you determining what to charge me and how does that change depending on which model I’m using?
Usage-based billing means you are charged based on the tokens your interactions consume, priced according to the listed API rates per model. We’ve built usage surfaces that show your consumption as a percentage of your budget and in monetary terms. These show up in your editor, on GitHub.com, and in admin dashboards.
Will you resume Copilot trials now that you’ve implemented token-based billing?
Our focus has always been on lowering the barriers to entry for anyone who wants to code and that’s why we continue to offer Copilot Free as a no-cost option. Unfortunately, we’ve observed a high volume of abuse through trials and paused them while we investigate. We are actively working on improved safeguards to prevent misuse of the trial system and will share an update when we have one.
Will we continue to see increased usage limiting?
Unfortunately, users will continue to see increased usage limiting until usage-based billing is implemented on June 1. We know it’s frustrating, and moving to usage-based billing allows us to reduce it. By aligning usage with costs, we can provide a Copilot experience that's predictable and reliable for all users.
Why not implement usage-based billing now? Why continue with painful changes like more usage limiting?
Usage-based billing requires standing up a new billing and metering infrastructure, which won’t be operational until June 1. In the meantime, we need to implement additional changes to ensure a predictable, reliable experience for all users. These are short-term safeguards, and we expect to lift restrictions once our new billing model is in effect.
Why are you only offering promotional pricing for existing Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users, and nothing for existing Pro and Pro+ users?
While we're not offering promotional pricing for individual paid plans, we’re offering the same 1:1 ratio of plan price to monthly entitlements as we offer for Business and Enterprise. We believe Pro and Pro+ plans remain competitive offerings that deliver high value for individual users.
Will my unused AI credits roll over from month to month?
No. Your unused AI credits do not roll over from month to month. They will reset at the start of each monthly billing cycle.
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