Their "API pricing" is exactly the same as that of providers: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing...

Seems like folks would be better off with OpenRouter instead.

If there's no discount on credits (in terms of tokens per dollar) over other providers, I'm going to switch to a PAYG provider. If there's a month where there's little to no coding I can pocket the 10$. What incentive do they give to stay with this plan?

Just got an email from GitHub saying they'll be raising prices for Co Pilot.

"To keep up with the way you use Copilot, we're transitioning to usage-based billing, and we want to give you enough time to prepare."

Man, it was fun. Having my tokens subsidized by Microsoft. If the prices go up to much I guess I'll try Deepseek again.

Isn't this like saying "The Porsche you rented at $200/mo is now a Honda. But the price hasn't changed!"

I thought I was pretty familiar with available options, but no one in my circles ever mentions this product. It doesn’t seem to have much mindshare.

Has anyone used it? What’s your experience?

https://github.com/features/copilot/cli

Usage paying for AI is 1000x crazier because you're not even getting a guarantee in the thing you pay for in the end. You have to keep feeding it prompts and hope it gives you the solution you want. You may end up with no expected result yet you are paying for it. At least with texting, you got what you paid for.

I wonder how long it'll be before all AI costs are flat unlimited monthly fees or even free across the board, without compromise.

> In March 2026, Windsurf replaced the credit-based system with a quota-based usage system. Instead of buying and spending credits, your plan now includes a daily and weekly usage allowance that refreshes automatically.

With hindsight, per-request pricing makes no sense at all if an agent can burn a widely varying amount of tokens satisfying that request. These pricing plans were designed before coding agents changed the dynamics of token usage.

The interesting question is how long it takes enterprises to notice the capability/pricing tradeoff, and whether they respond by limiting access to the strongest models internally.

The part that worries me is that this market is still very early. Most developers and organizations are still learning how to use these tools effectively. Raising the experimentation cost this much may slow down the discovery process that makes the tools valuable in the first place.

With this kind of pricing (sonnet 4.6 has 9x multiplier, previously 1x) it begs the question why use Copilot to begin with.

You could easily just buy the tokens directly and have a lot more choice as well.

With this pricing change, I see no reason at all to stick with Copilot in principle, but I really need to solve this issue of IDE integration to move on.

> What is the benefit of using the Copilot Pro+ at 39$/month instead of using the Copilot Pro at 10$/month and paying for extra usage?

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.

(I'm a copilot subscriber since 2022)

  Opus 4.6  3x -> 27x
  Opus 4.7  3x -> 27x
  GPT  5.4  1x ->  6x

> Plan prices aren’t changing

did not continue with an em-dash followed by something profound that is changing.

Plan prices aren't changing -- the value you get out of it is.

On top of that, you’ve got 2000minutes of container runtime, so running cloud agents was included. As was anthropic agent sdk mode via copilot which is very comparable with claude code - not identical, the anthropic “modular prompt” is much leaner in the sdk version.

I cant say im mad, i got above what i paid in value. That said, going forward ill probably go back to openrouter payg rather than a subscription.

I got a free 3months of the gemini £19 plan and ive been playing quite a bit, 3.1 pro is a good model, i just find it slow. Flash i think i under appreciated until now.

But what really surprised me most about Copilot is that it would bill you per question, nothing about tokens. So if I managed to produce a prompt that gave me back an insane amount of tokens for something, which using any Claude model would easily accomplish, you were giving me my money's worth, at your own expense. The math is not gonna math out forever.

This is just the start of the rug-pull

"It" being the end of subsidization of tokens and plans (expected) but while lock-in to foundational models and cloud services is still lacking. Guess investors want their ROI sooner than later, given how big of a wrench the AI boom has thrown into global economics.

I haven't been able to use my subscription much over the busy spring months, but i'm being charged every month.

I'd be tempted to keep the subscription if usage-based billing meant that i'd save money when i had less time.

But today, after hearing this, i cancelled my subscription.

If common people can have a DIY setup with an open source model cheaper than those behemoths with a scale advantage, it's clear that we have been played.

Time to either self host a Chinese open source model or to just pay the cheap Chinese providers.

Flat subscriptions had one big advantage: zero cognitive overhead per request. That's worth more than people admit.

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.

The background agents will also depreciate in value because of their harness that's a black box that's not optimized for token usage at all. Rolling one's own will be a better choice here.

This is the VSCode autocomplete stuff right? Really enjoy this.

> Copilot code review will also consume GitHub Actions minutes, in addition to GitHub AI Credits. These minutes are billed at the same per-minute rates as other GitHub Actions workflows.

That sucks.

I have Copilot Pro that I use occasionally, but not enough to tell how the switch to per use would affect my usage.

Based on description Pro plan users will get $10 in monthly AI Credits, but that seems rather low compared to what you could use same plan until now.

- I plan everything in ChatGPT. I provide project trees and create an execution plan for Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot agents. - I clearly say I do not want the agent to explain what it will do or what it did. I only want "I finished". That saves extra tokens. My projects include tools to gather file contents in bulk. A single command like bun copy-paste FILES="<file1> <file2>" lets the agent collect many files into one file. - I also provide a bun create-empty-files command so the agent can create all needed files at once instead of one by one.

With this setup, I managed to build 4 major features (more than 80 file edits or creations) using the 3 daily resets on a standard plan.

The plan is to normalize spending hundreds/thousands on tokens per month for the productivity you gain.

See Jensen Huang’s comment that every $500k developer should spend at least $250k worth of tokens per year.

having seen tens of millions of tokens (total; albeit not split by type) for a plan-agent workflow of a simple few line change, they should be also spending time on optimizing their internal orchestration.

i think the claude licensing on time-based limits would have been the least frustrating outcome, even if for the short-term. anyways, it was fun while it lasted (especially when opus 4.6 was initially 1x lol).

also, recession indicator anyone?

And then they have the gall to say

> "The bottom line: Plan prices aren’t changing"

If anyone lives in a place like Germany or Australia and has an annual sub, please take them to court, you're guaranteed to win because you have reasonable consumer protections and their ToS doesn't stand a chance. 9x reduction is unreasonable and the consumer cannot be expected to see this coming.

In case some diehard enshittifier believes that consumers should know better and businesses should be allowed to get away with it, where is the line? 99% reduction? Is that still okay?

If this situation is to be acceptable then it should be regulated as a financial product like stocks, which come with knowledge tests of "do you know you can lose all of your money?". And come with regulatory compliance and all that.

1. Current models in fact do not solve coding.

2. You can simply wait for a ~year for open-source to catch up and run it locally.

i tried the continue vscode extension, and it seemed kind of janky. are there better options?

-BYOK runs are $0 to Mouse, period.

-Hosted runs are billed at provider cost + a published markup.

-We will never invent a unit of billing that isn't denominated in tokens, seconds, or tool calls.

-Credits in the paid category never expire.

AI itself clearly weaker / dumber. Prices increased manyfold.

[0] - Last weeks changes limited my personal Copilot Pro account but not my Work one

Google won

That is, redact copilot from the bill for customers that dont use it.