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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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I'm already on Pro. Why should I keep it?

Only reason to keep it is if you like their UX and auto-complete. Everything else is on pay per use and if you don't use all of it (good luck with the 5 hour and week caps) you have just paid more for the auto-complete The deal is really pretty much garbage now and I believe that is the intent.

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Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Enterprise sales will be the answer. Microsoft will have some story that convinces an exec eight levels up the org chart from the normal users that this is an essential product they need to overpay for. Given their existing relationshipsand immense sales team they'll probably have success.

That story is data governance. Corporate already have a data-agreement with MS, storing all their data there. Github copilot is covered by that, while a individual agreement with e.g. anthropic needs lawers involved.

Plus if you're in government you have procurement to deal with. You already have an Enterprise deal with Microsoft so you don't have to go through any of that rigmarole.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Anyone paying enterprise billing can you shed some light how on the earth you will be able to fund this bill going forward?

Were you able to see assisted AI coding savings proportional to costs increase now you are going to get?

Companies removed people as AI assisted coding will be cheaper and now coding cost are going up from fixed $X to non-deterministic. The posts by Uber few days back about spending 12 months' worth of money in 4 months tells a lot.

Only path forward seems using Open-source models and many companies don't use Chinese that makes only Mistral one as the option.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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That's a silly reason. For non-agent use cases what kind of utilization are you going to average on your own GPU, 5-10%? And that's without batching. Even with overhead and scaling for peak use and a large profit margin, any company with an ounce of competition will be vastly cheaper than self-hosting. And for models you can run yourself, there will be plenty of competition.

I think you are calculating with current prices. Try to extrapolate the price in one year, seeing the current trends instead.

Extrapolating current trends, I expect API prices to drop significantly for a given measure of 'intelligence'.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Anyone paying enterprise billing can you shed some light how on the earth you will be able to fund this bill going forward? Were you able to see assisted AI coding savings proportional to costs increase now you are going to get? Companies removed people as AI assisted coding will be cheaper and now coding cost are going up from fixed $X to non-deterministic. The posts by Uber few days back about spending 12 months' w…

Surely one path is to return to humans. We can accept that a profit grab to reduce staff numbers to maximise profits, maybe was never the best plan without being in control of the development tool.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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The era of subsidised inference is truly ending. The new model multipliers ( https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing... ) seem like a huge leap, though. From 1x to 6x for new-ish GPT and Sonnet models. 27x for Opus... Seems like folks would be better off with OpenRouter instead.

Can't wait for people to migrate to open tools (opencode/openrouter). This will unlock a lot of innovation.

(I know openrouter is not open, but it allows competition and should be easily replaceable if needed)

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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The era of subsidised inference is truly ending. The new model multipliers ( https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing... ) seem like a huge leap, though. From 1x to 6x for new-ish GPT and Sonnet models. 27x for Opus... Seems like folks would be better off with OpenRouter instead.

Why would folks be better paying 5.5% fee to OpenRouter ("Open") if most people just use one or two providers? Just use the provider's API.

For me the largest value-add is the unified API. Being able to instantly start trialling a new model with zero code changes is well worth 5%. The other part is not having to deal with billing for multiple platforms.
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