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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing #192948
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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. Important May 12, 2026: We've updated the body of this post to include a questions about our announcement: April reports are now available to prepare for usage-based billing 📌 Frequently Asked QuestionsWhy 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. 🟢 Billing PreviewWhy do I have rows with 0 AIC Values?Some code reviews entries are missing AI Credit estimations. Copilot code reviews charged directly to organizations via automation or a user without a Copilot license will reflect 0 AI Credits due to a data issue. Based on the April usage report, my monthly Copilot bill is going to skyrocket. What can I do to control costs?First, be sure to set up or update your budget for additional Copilot spend today. Budgets currently set for premium request spend will automatically migrate to control AI credit spend on June 1, ensuring you stay within your intended spend. To stretch your usage, consider using lightweight models for quick questions, splitting up planning and implementation requests, and leveraging Auto Mode. Can I use the April usage report to budget for June usage?We recommend viewing the April usage report as a directional signal. It should give you a good indication of how you’ve been using Copilot and how much that type of usage will cost under usage-based billing. Please see the changelog and docs for additional information. |
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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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At least bring back Opus 4.6? 4.5? |
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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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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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I can't get in touch with anyone from support, they haven't answered tickets for over a month! REQUEST IMMEDIATE REFUND OF UNAUTHORIZED CHARGES AND DEACTIVATION OF COPILOT PRO (NON-EXISTENT ON THE PORTAL) Ticket: #4392671 |
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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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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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Yes, PAYG absolutely is going to be the future, but what average user can afford $400+/month. From what I've seen there has not been an instance where a user's new monthly charge isn't going to be significantly higher. If that is the case, perhaps AI (at least CoPilot) in coding isn't a viable business model? Can you imagine a company that has 100 software engineers being told your monthly sub just went up by a factor of 10 or more? I would suspect that they would have to come up with some way to accomplish their goals with a less expensive product. This is not the first time MS has done something like this and it won't be the last. Fortunately for us users, there will be someone who will step in with a less expensive option. I'm already looking at VS Code and Gemini and will look at other options too. |
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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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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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@JFlowXAI - If you think spamming the people who are on your side is the right course of action, you need to rethink. If someone was doing this to you, I suspect you would be up in arms and complaining loudly. There are ways to accomplish what you want without pissing everyone else off. Slow down, think, act rationally. |
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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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@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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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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@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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Yes, this is the unfair part. In a post elsewhere, they tried to claim that this is like spotify which has a monthly cost. But there, its not a upper limit to the minutes you can listen. This is like the cell phone plans they used to have, with limited minutes without roll over. |
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Removing the free models destroys any value in the individual plans |
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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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What are you doing to do for GitHub student account ? About GitHub Ai Credits |
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They have suspended the registration of Education Benefits, and I also want to know the next steps |
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Please, move back into request-based billing. Thanks. |
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It's impossible for them to move back. They used "Request-based billing" to bait you to subscribe and moved to "Token-based billing" with all the excuses their AI comes up with. |
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Request based billing basically locks in a system where either a company is either charging way too much for tokens, or way too little. That's not a workable business model. Whether that's an excuse or a reason depends on your point of view. I think it's just a fact. |
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this is true - but I found that with the extended sessions even the best models lost coherence and started developing on hallucinations - I ended up stopping them and reframing. so I'm not sure how useful is actually was |
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Guess this is firing up https://github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman |
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I am really sorry but I am not understanding very well the "convoluted language" you are using. I have simple questions:
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bye bye Github Copilot Pro |
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If you're currently on a monthly subscription, you will be automatically be moved to usage based billing on June 1st. |
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Why isnt there a Middle Finger Emoji? "Github Community Admin" |
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🖕🏼 |
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"AI credits"?! More number games. Is there just no where for me to have anything approximating a professional coding environment now? I'm done! |
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I hate github. |
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What happens next month, are they rolling up the unused credits? |
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0016 |
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Canceling my subscription. This is pathetic. I use copilot to do ad-hoc code assist tasks and one-off reviews, and this takes a sledgehammer to it. I do not need agentic multi-step/multi-repo crap - you are foisting that on people and then claiming it is becoming the "default". I'm out. |
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Hey! Glad that solution works for you as well :). Are you using Composer
2.5 or DeepSeek 4 ? I think we’ll soon hit a better balance between cost
and “intelligence” we get in return. A lot of people assume big companies
are trying to exploit users, but I don’t see it that way — it feels more
like a mix of hype, confusion, and overcorrection (for example, shipping
“smarter” models every month doesn’t really make sense to me). Once things
settle, the ecosystem will likely improve. Agentic development is still
very young, so some instability in costs is expected.
Il giorno mar 26 mag 2026 alle ore 23:32 Mark ***@***.***> ha
scritto:
… BRO! I took this advice and set this up through Cursor and have used 3
cents for the last hour! lol....Fant_fuck_tastic!!! Just make sure to run a
proxy and funnel through tailscale and violla! Awesome info thanks!
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I can’t say I’m surprised to see something like this from Microsoft. The main reason I was drawn to Copilot was the unlimited access to ChatGPT 4.1, and honestly, that was the biggest reason I stuck with it. So… I guess it’s Claude from here on out. |
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Dear GitHub Copilot Team, As a heavy daily user of Copilot, I’ve always hoped it could offer more generous free quotas and more affordable pricing while maintaining top‑tier coding quality. With that in mind, I’d like to propose a practical path to significantly lower inference costs — by self‑hosting state‑of‑the‑art open‑weight models, with DeepSeek as a prime example, complemented by other strong options like Qwen, GLM, and Kimi. Why DeepSeek is an excellent fit: · Extremely low cost – DeepSeek’s latest models already offer highly competitive API pricing, with cache‑hit input costs as low as a few cents per million tokens, and output costs far below typical Western services. Self‑hosting can further slash marginal cost to an estimated $0.10–0.30 per million tokens after optimisation (rough estimate based on modern GPU clusters like H100 under reasonable concurrency). Other compelling choices (for flexibility): · Qwen’s latest flagship – Ranked #2 globally on Code Arena (1541 points), surpassing leading GPT‑class models, Gemini, GLM, and Kimi. Qwen’s latest coding model also achieves top‑tier scores on SWE‑bench Verified while requiring as little as 46 GB of memory. Why self‑hosting makes strong business sense:
Suggested next steps: · Run an internal pilot, routing a small percentage of Copilot traffic to a self‑hosted DeepSeek model. Thank you for considering this idea. I’m happy to provide further data, and I’d also love to hear if the team has any preliminary thoughts on this direction. |
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The "Preparing your organization for usage-based billing" documentation says:
At the moment, we can configure budgets on the product-level, the SKU-level, or define a "Bundled premium requests budget". According to the recent "GitHub Copilot for usage-based budgets" webinar, one should also be able to set user-level budgets: 
However, we can't find this in the UI? |
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I checked the webinar again, and he says that the user-level budgets will not be there on June 1st (at 34:36 minutes into the recording). |
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You being disabled doesn't suddenly give you the right to spam peoples inboxes. I'm disabled too and pay per email from my provider and got an email for each repeat post you made maybe I should sue you to recoup my losses |
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Easy to find on crunchbase and other public platforms. But thanks for taking steps. |
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Because of your spam you lost all your credibility. Stop acting like a 10 year old. |
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@Cedricvigneron, because of your seriousness you forgot how to enjoy things. Start acting like a 10-year-old. |
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Thank you for fun journey, Microslop xD |
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I think I’m going to cancel my Copilot subscription in June. The $100 Max membership only gives you a $100 base value and a $100 flexible value. Looking at my bill for May, it's over $500, and that’s even with me using it cautiously! I used to hear this Google joke about how every single search query requires multiple machines running and consumes several kilowatt-hours of electricity. Now, it feels like you guys are trying to use that same old joke just to scam me out of my money.
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@wzh5550123 Bro, just quit this abomination. I am now toying with DeepSeek v4 Pro Max on opencode and it just got even better and faster. Works great and is doing exactly the same what typically you would do in Claude or Codex. I already cancelled. My next move is to migrate away to Codeberg or GitLab. I did not yet decided. FGH! |
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I mean my weekly usage went from 99% to 68% with one prompt because it was doing multistep reasoning, using tools, reading my implementation rules, the documentation etc etc, and writing tests. All of that is token spend and you can't even control it; you just have to hope your model behaves and you can only limit tool use, external documentation and PRD's and just hope the model does it correctly while you minimize your prompt to bare minimum lest you want a hole in your pocket. |
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I got rickrolled by the SESSION LIMIT at 62% monthly usage with a “try again in 27 minutes” message. I came back 2 hours later and was still locked out from the SESSION LIMIT this time it only said try again later. Days later it suddenly said I had used 98% of my monthly usage, and now it says 100%. How does my usage keep increasing while I’m locked out from SESSION LIMIT and unable to use the service? What's worse it was in the middle of something that is gonna be faster to just rewrite with something else so I got 62% of nothing but after a few days I got nothing for 100%. I suppose with 100% for nothing with 18 more days until reset I will end up forgetting about copilot. It really was fun while it lasted. |
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Qwen 3.7 Max, closed source, better than Opus 4.6 for a fraction of the price https://openrouter.ai/compare/anthropic/claude-opus-4.7/openai/gpt-5.5/qwen/qwen3.7-max/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 (half price until June 22nd you can try in on alibaba) 
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ATTENTION: Disabled and Neurodivergent GitHub Copilot Annual Subscribers. Has This Happened To You?If you are autistic, have ADHD, are AuDHD, have OCD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, PTSD, anxiety disorders, or any other condition that falls under the neurodivergent umbrella, or if you live with any disability that makes AI tooling not just useful but functionally necessary, I need to hear from you. GitHub Copilot annual subscribers are being cut off from contracted services without warning. No email. No notification. Just a wall where your tools used to be. For a neurotypical user this is an inconvenience. For us it is something else entirely. Here is what that actually looks like for a neurodivergent brain: You are mid-session. Deep in a flow state, the one that took you forty five minutes to get into. The one that doesn't come back just because you want it to. GitHub Copilot goes dark. The thread is broken. The context is gone. For an ADHD brain, that session is over. For an autistic brain processing a complex system, rebuilding that context from scratch is not just frustrating. It is genuinely disabling. For those of us who use voice dictation as our primary input, who rely on AI as external executive function, who depend on these tools to bridge the gap between how our brains work and what the world requires of us, this is not a billing dispute. This is an accessibility failure. **I want to be transparent: this is not an isolated complaint. Data is actively being gathered documenting how multiple major technology companies have systematically failed their disabled and neurodivergent user bases. GitHub is part of a much larger pattern. Your experience, if you choose to share it, becomes part of that record. Legally.** You are not alone. And the people paying attention to this are paying very close attention. |
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ATTENTION: Disabled and Neurodivergent GitHub Copilot Annual Subscribers. Has This Happened To You?If you are autistic, have ADHD, are AuDHD, have OCD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, PTSD, anxiety disorders, or any other condition that falls under the neurodivergent umbrella, or if you live with any disability that makes AI tooling not just useful but functionally necessary, I need to hear from you. GitHub Copilot annual subscribers are being cut off from contracted services without warning. No email. No notification. Just a wall where your tools used to be. For a neurotypical user this is an inconvenience. For us it is something else entirely. Here is what that actually looks like for a neurodivergent brain: You are mid-session. Deep in a flow state, the one that took you forty five minutes to get into. The one that doesn't come back just because you want it to. GitHub Copilot goes dark. The thread is broken. The context is gone. For an ADHD brain, that session is over. For an autistic brain processing a complex system, rebuilding that context from scratch is not just frustrating. It is genuinely disabling. For those of us who use voice dictation as our primary input, who rely on AI as external executive function, who depend on these tools to bridge the gap between how our brains work and what the world requires of us, this is not a billing dispute. This is an accessibility failure. I want to be transparent: this is not an isolated complaint. Data is actively being gathered documenting how multiple major technology companies have systematically failed their disabled and neurodivergent user bases. GitHub is part of a much larger pattern. Your experience, if you choose to share it, becomes part of that record. Legally. You are not alone. And the people paying attention to this are paying very close attention. |
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Hi everyone! 👋
We have identified and fixed an issue that caused AI Credits estimates on our billing preview tool to appear higher than expected in a short period in the month of April. As of Thursday, May 14 at 8:00 AM EST, this has been corrected, and for some users reports may now show a lower estimated price.
We’re sorry for the confusion this caused, and we appreciate everyone who flagged it.
We won’t be retroactively updating historical CSV exports, so if you’d like to see the latest pricing estimations, please rerun your export and upload to our billing preview tool.
Please see our previous updates here