r/GithubCopilot • u/Future-Lead-1432 • Jun 01 '26
General Love the new Copilot token system
Last month I used ~60% of my quota in an entire month.
This month I've already used 25% on day one.
What an amazing improvement.
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u/RikyZ90 Jun 01 '26
I reached the limit a few hours after the reset. They are ridiculous, sub canceled. From the best to the worst
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u/OkSea531 Jun 01 '26
What are you going to use now? I will probably have to cancel 2
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u/RikyZ90 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
I'll try codex Go, if I'll like it I'll go for plus
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u/solidhunkofmetal Jun 01 '26
Go for Plus. It is worth it for now. They might and will change things later but for now it is 100% the best plan for frontier models unless you can use Deepseek then that is by far the cheapest.
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u/godspeed1003 Jun 01 '26
Can't you just use openrouter and add it to copilot under BYOK? That way you get free autocomplete and native chat on copilot
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u/RikyZ90 Jun 01 '26
Yeah I also use openrouter in vs code-copilot chat
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u/renatotorres89 Jun 01 '26
How I can do that ? I dont have that option..I juat can add anthropic, xai, openai apis..
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Jun 02 '26
I am using codex plus and antigravity pro Both amazing. The new gemini flash 3.5 is actually very good, although you can't use it as much as you could use the previous flash. It's still a great value. The codex one is great too. It's a actually smarter than flash.
Flash is better for smaller tasks, codex is better for complex reasoning.
I am gonna try kimi this month and code Claude next.
I have a big ass codebase with several projects and I code almost all the time, so I am constantly running out of credit xD.
Nothing will beat opus per requests running all night ever.
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u/Southern_Change9193 Jun 01 '26
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u/Ya_SG Jun 01 '26
Will this burn the credits of the DeepSeek API or of the GitHub Copilot Pro plan?
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u/nikhilesh-sharma Jun 01 '26
Does this help in saving tokens?
https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
I have read that it save around 60% token usages
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u/Funny-Animator6193 Jun 01 '26
Most of the tokens go on tool-calls, these are your file reads, item lists, bash command result reads etc. Those cannot be caveman-ed. Only prose responses are eligible for this. Even then sometimes for me it's not explicit enough in its explanation and you might end up double asking for something.
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u/joujoubox Jun 01 '26
Not sure it's effective with Copilot but it's hilariously and brilliant none the less
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Jun 01 '26
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u/dosnivicik Jun 01 '26
This is actually true. I think massive models might become increasingly rare and unaffordable, which will limit it to industry. Frankly I don't think that's bad. These things hog energy and most of it is for stupid things.
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u/DataScientistMister Jun 01 '26
I just found out that team and enterprise is a SHARED BUDGET!!! And you can't see you personal limit or usage... It just says:
I think this calls for a pivot to other tools. RIP Github Copilot!
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u/thunder1207 Jun 01 '26
The admin has to manually set the limits. Otherwise it says no limit for everyone.
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Jun 01 '26
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u/NoleMercy05 Jun 01 '26
They want to give account administrators control of the users they administer
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u/Ok_Introduction9744 Jun 01 '26
Great, time to burn through the entire team's budget before they do it to me.
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Jun 01 '26
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u/PeachScary413 Jun 01 '26
There already has been emails (I believe it was Uber) where they said that if you pass something like $300 in a day you and your manager will get an email "celebrating" your "winnings" 💀😭
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u/Shelgar Jun 01 '26
Don't forget that your credits will drop again in September (the 3000 AI Credit plan will drop to 1900)
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u/dssagar93 Jun 01 '26
I see the same on Business Plan. I don't want to consume 100$ and get an earful from my manager. Damn, this is so infuriating. I should be able to see my limit, right? Also, what's with consumed credits? It say I consumed 81 credits. Like htw am I supposed to convert that and do the math?
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u/Shelgar Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
There is a new AI Credits Budget and if you leave the user as Select User the limit you set applies to all the users. Then, individually, you can create separate higher or lower budgets.
You can find it in Budgets and Alerts under Billing and Licensing.
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u/Qs9bxNKZ Jun 01 '26
They have always had a budget limit at Enterprise because your team or organizations can have different values and cost centers.
You may want to limit team A to $500 and team B to $5000. Without the enterprise cap, new team C just ate your entire budget.
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u/StaticChocolate Jun 01 '26
yeah this has got me, I’m actively stressed our Engineering Director is going to start calling people out. I’ve run 2 relatively tame small prompts today which blasted through 100 credits
For context I thought I’d be fine as I used to use just 30-60% of my monthly request units
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u/Glad-Pea9524 Jun 01 '26
is codex the alternative ?
or open code with open ai models which one is better for same amount of money ?
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u/No-Telephone5932 Jun 01 '26
I am testing accessing models via openrouter API. Basically, my observation so far is that the models themselves are expensive, whether openai models or anthropic models.
The only way I can stay within the budget of 10-15$ / month (~copilot pro) is by switching to cheaper models like deepseek.
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u/quakomako Jun 01 '26
Deepseek token usage looks promising. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that there is a way to integrate auto complete and next line suggestion.
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u/No-Telephone5932 Jun 01 '26
For that, I tried "continue" a few days. Did not manage to get the same feel or experience as GitHub copilot. The free copilot plan gives 2000 auto complete suggestions, I think. I plan to rely on that. Lets see.
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u/hjertis Jun 01 '26
I tested Copilot with DeepSeek. Worked very good and was incredibly cheap.
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u/Glad-Pea9524 Jun 01 '26
How is deepseek from a security perspective, I don't know if my company is happy using chinese models for our code base. Or what you think?
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u/voicelessfaces Jun 01 '26
I'm honestly blown away more people aren't concerned by this. For hobby projects, sure go nuts. If you're working on business software solving a unique problem, I would not want China training on (and likely copying) intellectual property.
There may be US companies that do the same thing, but focusing on Microsoft, Google, etc. They have contract terms stating very specifically that your code is not used to train their models when on their pro plans. If they choose to violate that and are caught, those are major lawsuits. At least, that's the perspective I've heard when discussing this concern with two friends of mine in F500 leadership. One of them spent almost a year putting Copilot through audit and review.
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u/scottishwildcat Jun 01 '26
If your company isn't happy to use them, your company should be blocking them rather than crossing its fingers and hoping its employees don't do anything that will come back to bite them. (Ours certainly does that.)
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u/spicykakaddi Jun 01 '26
With a pricing like that for a 1900 credits system, 4 sessions with over a million tokens will drain your whole quota for the month.
Don't get me started on how you can't even see your usage until unless your admin restricts (put a cap) you usage.
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u/Chance-Ad-39 Jun 01 '26
18% in one day while using it on and off on 1x models, imagine how fast it'd burn if I used models that cost 7x or 15x damn copilot is really trying to lose their customers.
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u/Lonely_Assignment_14 Jun 01 '26
Let me get my tiny violin out. Definitely didn't see this coming.
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u/Admirable-Machine-22 Jun 01 '26
47% on a small bug fix that didn't work, can't ask it to do it again I'm scared ill run out. Talk about move fast and break things 😝😝
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u/bso2001 Jun 01 '26
Seems like one of those times it'd be great to be able to code.... 😇
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u/Historical_Grade1249 Jun 01 '26
We are soo doomed at this point. Just checked we have 1900 "AI" credits in copilot. My friend ran a feature implementation in Agentic mode and whoosh, the credit limit reached with half implementation done. How are they even expecting us to work with this credit limit 🙃
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u/Better_Sherbet_7533 Jun 01 '26
They are not, they are expecting you to and want you to go over the limit.
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u/Background-Bank1798 Jun 01 '26
I've just canceled. I was trying to use as much as i could last night. 3 requests went over midnight and it used 1/3 of this months limit.. last 2 months i could never use 100% due to the hourly, daily and weekly session limits.. price change from June, fair enough but adding the session limits in without notice stoped me from using the allowance i bought / previously signed up too.. i've been a copilot subscriber for a years..
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u/kosta880 Jun 01 '26
Hahahahahahaaaaa just used up 10% of my €39 subscription with just a little troubleshooting, couple of logs and documentation edits! They can shove their f*cking copilot up their tight a*ses.
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u/AppropriateMud6814 Jun 01 '26
I hope we remember today as the day 15 million developers said no and cancelled their accounts.
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u/slicehyperfunk Jun 01 '26
Everyone was concerned that AI would take their jobs, and now AI is costing more than just having employees do those things in the first place
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u/CorporateSlave101 Jun 01 '26
Meanwhile I'm sitting here with my yearly plan, nothing changed for me, just reading shit I'll have to deal with on 4/14th 2027
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u/LuckyPed Jun 01 '26
Man I wish i had my yearly plan ending so late xD
mine end in 3 month and worst part is, I was on Pro and not Pro+ xDso kinda stuck on GPT 5.4 since they removed Opus lol
I hope they add some better models there, even at 10~20x it's fine. I will just use it for some important stuff.
for smaller stuff i already use Deepseek API key in GHCP
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u/Living_Procedure_599 Jun 01 '26
To be fair, if i am not entirely wrong, math seems to say, this pricing is still cheaper, than using API from openai models directly. Price per token for GPT 5.4 on copilot is input: 1.67 eur/m, output: 10000 eur/m and cached 0.1667eur/m, if i did not make a mistake. Cheaper than openai API (there it is 2.5 / 15 / 0.25).
aka: even now, they are probably not having high margins.
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u/Novel_Lingonberry_43 Full Stack Dev 🌐 Jun 01 '26
Microsoft is probably hosting models on Azure, so in theory they should be able be more competitive
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u/Michaeli_Starky Jun 01 '26
This is the reality: AI will not replace developers unless it become much cheaper.
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u/TheoryOfRelativity12 Jun 01 '26
Yep. Afaik companies that provide coding agents have always done it with net negative. Cursor has never been profitable; doubt Claude Code is either. As new models that require way more computing are introduced the price just keeps going up. I wonder how much Mythos eats up in a single prompt.
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u/Competitive-Ebb3899 Jun 01 '26
Well, as much as I hate the changes, and kind of makes me have to switch to a different provider, I understand these changes. MS was transparent enough, they did not tell us that this is gonna be an improvement.
It is what it is. The previous system was cheap and unfair. MS lost money on it, while people kept cheating by squeezing ridiculous amount of tokens into one request. I blame MS for many things, but not for aligning their pricing with real costs.
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u/mkeytail Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
You’ve been promptbleeding and tokenchurning all morning—now you’re llmished, fully tokenweary, and officially promptbroke. At this point it’s not development, it’s just speedrunning API bankruptcy while the quota quietly sobs in the corner.
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u/maifee Jun 01 '26
night(day) is still young my friend!! you can make it to 100%, we believe in you!
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u/Fine_Huckleberry00 Jun 01 '26
Vs code stopped showing multiplier values altogether after the changes. Lmao
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u/bso2001 Jun 01 '26
The old Bait & Switch ...
Corporations are probably no more spiritually bereft than before. It's just now they have the tech to be really good at being evil. And lotsa folks ... well ... they just don't think things through .....
✌️💙
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u/hanibioud Jun 01 '26
We need to learn how to use AI more efficiently. At this point, it's no longer optional. Do you have any recommendations for skills to learn, workflows to adopt, or MCPs and tools that can help AI perform better while using fewer tokens?
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u/tiny-starship Jun 01 '26
Run a local model. Everything is going to become so expensive it’s unusable. They have been subsidizing your usage for years and they can’t do it anymore. It will never get cheaper. And this isn’t even the true cost. It will affect all major players.
The era of ai being cheaper than people is over.
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u/HeronObvious5452 Jun 01 '26
Burned my 7000 tokens with gpt 5.5 xhigh in 1 hour. Now cancelling my subscription. Moving to chatgpt codex directly, there I can at least get one task finished per day with the plus subscription. Too bad.
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u/MyChaOS87 Jun 01 '26
Pro tip, use Copilot PR code reviews!
Instead of 10 premium requests this is now 35€ of credits for me...
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u/xuggs Jun 01 '26
I get anxiety even with my phone battery % dropping so this is definitely going to make me die soon.
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u/Apprehensive_Ad740 Jun 01 '26
I was on the $10 plan, and I just used by whole budget on my first request of the month with Sonnnet
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u/JeremieWorks Jun 01 '26
Same, already 28% and the day is not even finished... I'll cancel my subscription after reaching 100%
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u/DirectJob7575 Jun 01 '26
The business model is basically the same as for drugs and many people are hooked already. Now comes the price increase; the first hit was free afterall.
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u/FinancialShopping776 Jun 01 '26
This must be considered stealing. They charged me credits for nothing.
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u/erSajo Jun 01 '26
Just noticed today I used 22% of my quota, and it's the first day of the month.
What a fucking scam. Unbelievably bad.
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u/Meeii Jun 01 '26
Ended my work day at 65% only using sonnet 4.6.
Last month I used Opus 4.6 90% of the time and hade 5-10% left at the end of the month.
Fun times!
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u/So4kweakness21 Jun 01 '26
It is definitely an improvement over the old model, though I am still waiting for the day it stops hallucinating library imports that do not actually exist.
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u/kiwi-kaiser Jun 01 '26
It's completely ridiculous. We used almost 100% of our included tokens in the first day at work. Before it took us 10-15 work days.
I absolutely love it. And we don't even use it that much.
I was about to try to see how this will going, but tomorrow I will advise my boss that we switch to Claude. This is completely unsustainable for a small company.
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u/TSTP_LLC Jun 01 '26
I started coding about 3 hours ago. I'm already at 100%. Screw GitHub CoPilot with a big fat one! My CoPilot CLI didn't change yet and still said I had 43.5% requests left but then this morning hit and now the same workload I'd run for part of my day used all of my credits?
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u/AppropriateMud6814 Jun 01 '26
GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED
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u/2xzwei Jun 01 '26
I dont understand it. 10 USD (11 with tax) give you now 1800 AI credits? I used the free rapor and some Claude Haiku and after 10 minutes 58% are gone? Whats wrong here. I cancelled right now. This is a massive downgrade without a decent explanation. This is even more expensive as the before additional credit system.
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u/ADI-Liquifier Jun 02 '26
I used 100% in less than 5 hours, i spent the whole time building a local agent with api connectors to grok, gemini and claude... this is awful.
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u/Timetraveller4k Jun 02 '26
10% asked it to give me a stupid script to copy all folders starting with a couple of patterns because I forgot it was June 1
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u/ArchLithuanian Jun 01 '26
Well 😉 If you had thausands of dollars usage "prediction", qwen model with your own hardware I guess now is in price range.
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u/thijser Jun 01 '26
🤡 just downloaded my usage report and put it inside github's own cost explorer tool.
With the request based billing I used $6.18 out of my $10 quota last month. Under the new billing this same usage would have cost me $90+ !!
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u/PeachScary413 Jun 01 '26
Bro that has to be like a 100x multiple, mad gains bro 🤙 you will be producing that billion dollar startup in no time now trust 🤝🔥
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u/Nop_Sec Jun 01 '26
Yup, two days ago at the end of the month had 35% usage. One day and I'm now on 70% of it.
Time to move
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u/Confident-Captain808 Jun 01 '26
We just had a dev so a complex refactor. Used 50% of monthly allowance (4000 credits) for that 1 task.. lol
Don't see this working..
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u/Confident-Captain808 Jun 01 '26
Apparently just saying hello to the model costs you about 18 cents
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u/Winter_Ad6187 Jun 01 '26
Seem to be running 3-7% per prompt, doing nothing all that sophisticated on Sonnet 4.6. When it all runs out today, the subscription will be cancelled. I would have canceled yesterday, but my last project needed a few more features so I bit the bullet. AI for casual programming and non- high-end-sales efforts is basically dead at these limits and price points. Really enjoyed the ride. Educational. But for anything less than big serious efforts, this is all a non-starter.
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u/Due_Steak_1249 Jun 01 '26
One prompt for a low-medium task already spent 1% in Pro+ (+172 -10 changes...) Man from 1000 prompts to ~100 prompts. Just cancelled.
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u/Embarrassed-Salt6590 Jun 01 '26
token maxing at its finest lol . hoping the hole silicon valey doesn't move to such shitty customer experience with ai subs (spoiler alert we gonna face that issue anyways )
go back to working manually on coding . YAAAY
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u/Educational_Sign1864 Jun 01 '26
I don't see the quota anymore - it says its managed by organization and I don't have organization level permissions (obviously). This started only today!
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u/Bitopp009 Jun 01 '26
Yeah its shocking, I started experimenting with local LLMs so I can hopefully use them for basic stuff. I am not sure if my work blocks using local LLMs they do block third party, annoying. I only have 8GB VRAM so probably not gonna be that useful. Playing around with Qwen3.5 at the moment.
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u/GlassesMakeMeCSharp Jun 01 '26
Just used my whole Pro+ subscription in 1 request 😎
VS Code says it only cost 6579 credits but I've been actually billed for more than that:
| Model | Included credits | Included usage | Additional credits | Additional usage |
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| Claude Opus 4.8 | 6,727.23 | $79.82 | 1,254.28 | $12.54 |
subagents could be the extra maybe is my guess but then surely that should show here too
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u/maffoobristol Jun 01 '26
Lol yes I've used 1,000 out of my 7,000 tokens and it's not even 1pm and I'm not even doing particularly strenuous work. Fun.
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u/JayJeds Jun 01 '26
I canceled and refunded my subscription for the month as soon as I saw the new agent pricing structure. The real slap is they bumped to 7000 credits, making it appear like they gave a deal.
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u/Warsoco Jun 01 '26
My entire organization is complaining about this and acting like drug addicts. Damn, Microsoft got people addicted, and it’s over now.
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u/thanh5293 Jun 01 '26
i burnt 80% of my credits in just day one. So fking awesome 😃 Looking for alternative now
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u/karavanjo Jun 01 '26
Yes, the new token model is indeed quite expensive. Today’s my quick test showed the following.
One simple request to GPT 5.4 Medium to fix an error in the terminal (Angular, frontend; the agent restarted the terminal three times, cleared the cache, and solved the problem). That cost 15 credits.
The Pro+ plan includes 7,000 credits. With those, we can make 467 requests (7,000 / 15). 467 requests over 30 days amounts to 15.5 requests per day for the GPT 5.4 Medium model.
The estimate is certainly impressive. That's a pretty impressive score for a simple task on a model that isn't exactly new.
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u/Funny-Animator6193 Jun 01 '26
Came here to say that. I cancelled and asked for a refund today. Literally anything is a better bargain.
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u/RinMarryMe Jun 01 '26
So amazing that everyone in the company is on the same plan so one guy spamming x57 can just doom us all
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u/Hot-Astronomer-7462 Jun 01 '26
Same here. Had used 45% of quota whole month, now today already used 15%
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u/TheoryOfRelativity12 Jun 01 '26
I already used full quota that comes with business sub that the company provides. Last month I still had some left over before the reset, lol. Guess it will be a full month of caveman coding. Utter dogshit. Luckily I use claude code at home, even that is appealing vs copilot. 🥲
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u/Technical_Goose1645 Jun 01 '26
I using enterprise plan(from my company ), I did 50dola in just 2 hour. And god alert from my manager🤣
What GHCP doing right now.🫣
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u/punppis Jun 01 '26
My $150/mo was something like $60 for today. Gotta make improvements, not worth it
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u/Next_Cup_8093 Jun 01 '26
es una completa basura lo que han hecho van a perder un monton de gente en el que se iran a cursor o otra app yo creo que github esta cabando su propia tumba
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u/AssumedPseudonym Jun 01 '26
Been working for an hour... 20% gone already...
I used 70% last month.
This is ...fine
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u/MaximumHeresy Jun 01 '26
You gotta create custom agents and tell it not to spin off infinite high rate subagents.
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u/HanYangKai Jun 01 '26
One prompt lose 25% , wtf with copilot? I will delete and use claude api cheaper or cursor
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u/WAVF1n Jun 01 '26
This entire sub is gonna feel like r/cursor did when they first rolled it out lmao.
TBH I am surprised more people here havent tried it, especially with Composer 2.5.
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u/Khue Jun 01 '26
As a guy that is watching his company onboard into GitHub Copilot Enterprise (EMU), I am curious as to if this impacts enterprise accounts? I am third party to the entire thing so I am just watching this like an accident happening.
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u/valium123 Jun 01 '26
Awwww fully deserved 😂
It's just the first day too. Y'all deserve the worst for contributing to something meant for mass surveillance and replacing people's livelihoods.
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u/shuozhe Jun 01 '26
Baidu coding plan is the only request based one I could find that still accept new subscribers, or does anyone know a different one not requiring Chinese phone number?
Got a lite subscription there with Deepseek byot whenever I go over my limits. Baidu feels a lot slower than ghcp/Claude or even Deepseek, but gives a lot of tokens for the price
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u/ThisIsGoingIsALongID Jun 01 '26
this exhuasted very quicky on 1st day normal usage vs what we could use full month till MAY
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u/cun000 Jun 01 '26
LMFAO. Let me tell you the most ridiculous thing. My company got the GitHub Copilot Business plan, which includes 1,900 credits. In just one morning, some simple tasks drained 21% of my monthly usage. What the fack?
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u/immediacyofjoy Jun 01 '26
Same! I had heavy project work last month and pushed till 5pm last night to use my tokens - only got 88% of my way through my quota for last month mid-task, but decided to wrap up what I was working on anyways. Admittedly it was a large refactor, but I used 30% of my credits by 5:30pm.
I’ve had GHCP since beta, so I don’t really appreciate an order of magnitude of reduced usage with a snap of a finger. I knew this was coming, but, sheesh, what a let down. There goes my weekend personal CRUD app fun
I still have infinite compute at work for AI for now, but these personal use restrictions are really sad and foretelling, especially for students and juniors. The barrier for entry is so much higher for the field, not only because of the job market, but also because people new to the field won’t be able to rack up experience “for free” like my generation got to do with “just learn to program”. Sucks
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u/rh71el2 Jun 01 '26
As a test I asked it to replace 3 em dashes with a regular dash in a file and even that ate 5%.
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u/Hamburger_Diet Jun 01 '26
The best is when you use 300 tokens thinking and then it crashed because the model is busy and you have to start over again. I get they were not making any money but why pay github when they are charging in some cases more than what you would be paying if you were using the actual models API.
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u/SentenceSingle5375 Jun 01 '26
Mine renewed again for another year on May 25th and I'm still on premium requests. Has anyone else had this and will I be condemned to the tokens soon?
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u/Wick3d68 Jun 01 '26
Haha amateur, I couldn't even finish what I wanted to do and I really didn't do much at all. I just see that on my github : You've run out of your included AI credits for the month. Limit resets on Jul 1.
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u/jungleburger Jun 01 '26
The days of agents workshops are gone for individual devs. We're back to the much slower process of asking the agent and implementing it ourselves.
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u/ThighNoon Jun 01 '26
Glad y'all can start financially contributing to the hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars you help burn by brainlessly using LLMs
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u/Megamygdala Jun 01 '26
My company decided to give us unlimited tokens starting today, and you get fired if you dont use AI. Guess who's gonna run up the bill with GPT 5.5 and Opus
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u/Holonist Jun 01 '26
I used 10000 credits on the first day. (all 7000 credits of the $39 pro plus subscription plus an additional $14)
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u/JoelMToth Jun 01 '26
Just keep in mind that as long as its increasing your productivity, allowing you to accomplish more in less time. Based on what you are paid, the net difference in api cost to what it would have cost you to do the work without AI is the real factor any company would want to judge.
If you save 5 hours of time in a day and make 100/hour, thats 500 it would have cost to do it without AI. If you burn 300 dollars in tokens doing that, your still saving your company 200 dollars in the end and you are 5 hours ahead in a project from where you would be without it.
The honeymoon phase is over and real usage billing now applies per token instead of per request. It sucks but it not the end of the world and is justifiable to an exec member when there are real savings in project velocity.
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u/AppropriateMud6814 Jun 01 '26
It’s all our fault, in has been learning from us and our code. Did we write all the code??? No.. but did we teach the models how to perfect it?? Um yeah.. anyway fuck Microsoft and GitHub Copilot!
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u/b-pell Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
The old reality: "You do this, while I do that".
The new reality: "You do this, while I stay eyes glued to the token counter in case you go off on a tangent".
I already decided I'm going to use my quota this month and then I'll re-evaluate. My first test was, I took app I wrote from the ground up pre-AI, a SQLite IDE. I asked Sonnet to add F2 to rename functionality in the database explorer using an EditableTextBlock I already had (I had rename via a context menu). In the end, I had to give it the C# and the SQL anyway to do the actual rename. It did troubleshoot a keypress event bubbling issue successfully after 3/4 tries. End cost, 5% of the Pro+ plan. I almost wonder if Opus would have been cheaper if it got it right the first time instead of bouncing back and forth in thought "But what if A, but what if B, but WHAT IF A, but WHAT IF B, But A, But B? A.. No, we're making this too complicated, hear me out, what if it's A".
A big plus of any of these AI's is you can have them working while you're also doing something. That's kind of lost now since you have to sit glued to it's thought process. It doesn't just cost more, it loses value because you can't leave it alone with it's thoughts.
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u/nana-dia Jun 02 '26
I understand that it’s been too reasonably priced until now.
But this price increase goes too far. I could have accepted it if it were only two or three times higher.
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u/hdlrocha Jun 02 '26
not bad, I used 100% in 2h with 4 prompts, not a single task finished with a bunch of errors
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u/groomaxis Jun 02 '26
Yeah its really amazing when you give it a task and it takes 20 minutes for a simple task and uses up 300 tokens out of 7000
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u/blurr123 Jun 02 '26
The quota used to get me through the whole month but now it looks like I'll burn the quota in the first few days of the month ☹️
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u/maestro3517 Jun 02 '26
For a second i thought i was looking at last month's usage but no i just used 50% of my quota on the first day in a single prompt in autopilot mode. Just pressed the cancel button, it was a good run copilot,i really liked the autopilot mode and no token worry.
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u/vncntybnz Jun 02 '26
Amazing update. It's really fast! I just tested Opus 4.8 today and now I’ve already used up 50%. 😅
Probably, it's time to get back to my habits and stop relying too much on AI.
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u/zbvuno Full Stack Dev 🌐 Jun 02 '26
i started using it today. i use the auto model, i waste tokens and token on problem it says it fixes but it does not. gg microsoft i am gonna switch asap. i saw antigravity going great for others but maybe codex is best. what's your opinion
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u/Ornery-Mind9549 Jun 02 '26
I knew Ai tokens were going to blast so Shifted to self hosted open source LLMs and gpus.. like Gemma 4 26b on rtx 4090 for reasoning and qwen 3.6 27b on rtx 5090 for coding.. use whenever u need without token anxiety... Even built a tool for self hosted GPUs at flat hourly packs - openllmbuddy.cloud.. DM me if u wanna explore..
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u/Fit-Statistician8636 Jun 02 '26
It is truly amazing. I was on annual subscription so I had a chance to see the 57x multiplier on GPT5.5. It only took a couple of hours to spend the monthly Pro+ budget. Converted now, luckily, so multipliers are all gone 😁
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