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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by bobthepanda »

madamelic wrote: post #379
nonameiguess wrote: post #302

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I'm not quite 60, but it's always interesting to me that I feel quite the opposite of this. When I was 16, I didn't have a computer, didn't have a phone, had never used the Internet, but when I think of how life has changed, it's frankly not much. I woke up this morning, scooped my cats' litter boxes, took out some trash, made myself breakfast, ate that, read some news while eating, then lifted weights in my garage,…

Thank you for this insight! I always wonder the views of older people. My parents are very technology forward and have been my entire life so it is difficult to gauge how different life is compared to when they were growing up. It's easy to hear "Oh well I only had 640kb of memory and typed programs out of a magazine I got in the mail!" and see as distinct from having 'unlimited' resources and the internet. Your insi…

To some degree this already happened with the move from the industrial city to suburbanization and then re-urbanization. In particular one of the most notable recent developments is that urban waterways are now pretty desirable places to be with parks and recreation; in most industrializing cities the waterfront was actively avoided because the industrial use made it polluted, smelly etc.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by cheema33 »

Gigachad wrote: post #378
stefan_ wrote: post #330

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Dunno, if in this day and age you are making inference more expensive, more scarce, you are honestly moving in the wrong direction and DeepSeek and others will gladly take your lunch.

The hardware to run deepseek is still incredibly expensive.

> The hardware to run deepseek is still incredibly expensive.

Deepseek API pricing is very low compared to Anthropic/OpenAI API pricing.

For many, the 300% difference in pricing may be difficult to justify, if the quality difference is very small. And there will be many tasks where the most expensive/the best model, is not needed. Currently many people end up using Opus 4.7/GPT 5.5 for many tasks without thinking about it.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by referenceo »

baby_souffle wrote: post #258
KronisLV wrote: post #79

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> I was curious why a company would still use the VS Code + Copilot sidebar method for coding, rather than something like Claude Code. I use Claude Code, but I kept my Copilot subscription around mostly for really cheap usage of other models when I need to try a different one (which appears to be ending, in a sense) and also the autocomplete in Visual Studio Code which was really great across a bunch of files, I coul…

> also the autocomplete in Visual Studio Code which was really great across a bunch of files I wonder what other good autocomplete is out there. I am in the same boat. I tried looking for tab/auto-complete implementations ~ a year ago and it was pretty disappointing. If that has changed, would love to know!

Windsurf has free unlimited tab complete, I use it as an IDE alongside Claude Code and it works pretty well. I think Google's Antigravity also has free tab complete but no idea if its any good.

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Post by try-working »

Cancelling. Going with Codex $100, Kimi annual plan, DeepSeek API, and a local LLM once I get a Mac Studio.

Inference economics are going to be brutal in 2026 H2 when DeepSeek's new infra and model improvements come online, and Kimi launches K3. By brutal, I mean for OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Post by pauleveritt »

edzitron wrote: post #115

vindication! https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-microsoft-moving-all-g...

You should indeed feel vindicated. Me too, I've been a paid subscriber for months and eagerly read every word. But yes, I feel like this is the first of several vindications you have coming.

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Post by Computer0 »

linhns wrote: post #95
cedws wrote: post #91

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Seems like a strong signal the money burning party is coming to a close. Nearly all AI companies have tightened their belts in the past month. Anthropic removed Claude Code from the Pro plan, Z.AI increased their prices, GitHub removed some Claude models from Copilot, now this. Also, Opus 4.7 seems like a model more intended to save Anthropic money than push the bar.

I believe Anthropic added CC back to the pro plan.

Now they just removed Opus.

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Post by ReptileMan »

dist-epoch wrote: post #254
slopinthebag wrote: post #204

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DeepSeek is actually more expensive than expected ATM due to compute shortage, but they said it would come down in price.

The compute shortage will be bigger 3 months from now.

Depends how China scales its semiconductor industry.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by koyote »

born_a_skeptic wrote: post #103

I wonder if GitHub (Microsoft) is implicitly betting that enterprise demand is sticky enough to absorb these rates, especially given that Opus 4.6 “fast” was being listed at a 27x multiplier. Maybe they saw enough usage at that price point to conclude the demand is real. Or maybe the strategy is to keep the enterprise customers who can justify it while shedding heavier individual and power-user usage. The interesting…

As someone who works in a Microsoft shop with Copilot, I am curious to see what happens.

Due to data governance it will be difficult to move to a different provider.

At the same time, this price hike is so large that the ROI on copilot will be a net negative.

I think what will ultimately happen is that we will not pay Microsoft more than we currently do and we'll simply end up with less AI usage in the company and a reduction in productivity.

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Post by [deleted] »

fomoz wrote: post #247
hakunin wrote: post #157

Everybody who says it's a 5-9-27x seems to not be aware of the obvious loophole. More like 50x increase. You were able to use over $500 worth of Opus on a $10/mo Github plan easily, no hacks. You could just prompt "plan this out for me, don't stop until fully planned, don't ask any questions", and you would get ~$5 worth of planning in one 3x request. At 100 requests/mo, each easily reaching $5, that's easy $500 wort…

Bingo. I created a few autonomous skills that did exactly that for plan review, implementation, and branch review, review autonomously until green. I was using 100M+ tokens per day, $250 per day or so and only paying $160 per month to GitHub. I cancelled my GHCP sub and switched to Codex last week, so far so good but I miss Gemini 3.1 Pro for UI work.

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