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Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by Ekaros »

boothby wrote: post #67
minimaxir wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's annoying is that it's obvious . In the case of GPT 5.5, if Copilot is going to charge 7.5x what GPT 5.4 costs while OpenAI themselves via the API/Codex only charges 2x of what GPT 5.4 costs, that will immediately raise an eyebrow.

To anybody who's been watching the tech sector with a critical eye for pretty much any period from the late 90s and onward, this is just the enshittification process. For most of OpenAI's existence it's been obvious, to me, that investors were burning insane levels of capital to build the market, and now that folks are locked in, you're seeing higher fees, ads, etc. Yet again, the user is the product; the investors w…

Let's call it for what it is dumping. Dumping things on market below cost of production. This should not have ever been allowed. RnD costs I can accept somehow. But in this case the interference should have always been billed for the real costs that it took to produce and pay off the capex.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by jeroenhd »

Computer0 wrote: post #396
linhns wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe Anthropic added CC back to the pro plan.

Now they just removed Opus.

I signed up over the weekend and still have access to Opus. I believe the AB test they were doing only removed Opus from a small percentage of users.

Don't think I'll be renewing though. The usage limits are low enough that I don't think this is worth it. One complex prompt while Americans are awake will wipe out your alloted tokens it seems.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by MartinodF »

mnahkies wrote: post #240
ezfe wrote: post #221

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Enterprise gets pooled credits and will like having everything go through one place so I think it still works.

You can pool credits through open router (afaik, I'm only using a single user account), but if you top-up $10 per user, per month, any unused credits will rollover. Tbh I think it still works, but only because the new allowance will likely get used very quickly within a billing cycle - I'm expecting this change to increase our orgs bill significantly based on how many API credits with open router I consume in a weeke…

Which is almost guaranteed to be the case for a large org, considering everyone will want auto complete and PR reviews, but on average most will not be making a ton of agent use

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by kanemcgrath »

deaux wrote: post #444
kanemcgrath wrote: post #269

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I did, but in almost everything I tried even qwen3.5 was better, and 3.6 was a huge step up.

Good to know, did you also try non-coding or is that what you use it for? For tasks unrelated to coding we've generally preferred Gemma.

So far I have done coding projects only, but I have some ideas for some non-coding agent projects in the future, so I'll give Gemma another shot

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by theanonymousone »

fooey wrote: post #360
theanonymousone wrote: post #162

Something is hilariously off here: Why should I pay $10 and be forced to use it by the end of the month, while I can pay $10 and have it last as long as I want? Their "API pricing" is exactly the same as that of providers: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing...

for my experience currently, I greatly prefer the VSCode Copilot extension experience over the Claude Extension I think VSCode only supports copilot for "autocomplete" too on top of that, you need GitHub Copilot for the PR reviewer functionality in GitHub

You can use Copilot extension with OpenRouter (among others).

And yes, I need to find a solution for autocomplete. It used to be available in free tier of Copilot. Not sure anymore.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by hansmayer »

In a way, this is good news. I am expecting to see a lot less of AI-boosters claiming that they are "productive in ways you don't understand", now that they'll have to dish out upwards of a few thousand bucks per month for whatever PoCs they are building. And the excited hired middle managers and CEOs spending other people's money will have to be much more careful about their budget starting June.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by aitchnyu »

try-working wrote: post #394

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.

What about Minimax? Their api pricing is half of Kimi and Z.ai.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by hu3 »

hansmayer wrote: post #476

In a way, this is good news. I am expecting to see a lot less of AI-boosters claiming that they are "productive in ways you don't understand", now that they'll have to dish out upwards of a few thousand bucks per month for whatever PoCs they are building. And the excited hired middle managers and CEOs spending other people's money will have to be much more careful about their budget starting June.

Nah, they are moving to DeepSeek v4 Pro which is like Sonnet tier for a fraction of the price.

And DeepSeek V4 Flash is comparable to Gemini Flash at also a fraction of the cost.

These models are just quite chatty from my experience. Only downside.

And DeepSeek is planning to deploy to their own Huawei TPUs, halving their already cheap prices.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by krzyk »

ezfe wrote: post #439
J_Shelby_J wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a way to use the autocomplete feature with an api?

No but autocomplete is not part of this billing change

Is that autocomplete better than IntelliJ own plus their local only LLM completion?

I uninstalled copilot plugin because it was eating memory and its completions where about 60% good and the rest was bad.

After switching back to IntelliJ I see just positives.

Re: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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Post by krzyk »

my002 wrote: post #4

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.

Those multiplier are only for grandfathered Pro an Pro+ plans that had annual billing, basically a way to scare people of out of those plans. Ant new ones (and bussiness+enterprise plans) will be on token based billing since June 1.
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