@KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
2026-04-27 16:52 UTC
Replies (24)
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@BannedVoice@lemmy.zip 2026-04-27 18:03
Claude is cutting back on usage policy for pro users… GitHub CoPilot is now doing it too… It’s not hard to see the future, AI companies bought up all the RAM creating a shortage which raises prices for all of us across the board. Now they’re going to throttle and limit access to it behind a paywall per transaction. The future is so stupid. Can we just go back to dial up internet and IRC? It was a much simpler time.
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@Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 03:53
So, if you subscribe to the $10/ month plan you get $10 worth of tokens to use within a month, and if you subscribe to the $49/month plan you get $49 worth of tokens to use within a month. At this point why subscribe? Just pay directly the tokens so if you use less you pay less. To me it doesn’t make sense to subscribe at $49 and maybe use $30 of tokens. People were subscribing at the $49 plan because they were using $1000 in tokens worth
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@Cornpop@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 18:47
So should I just switch to Claude max plan now?
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@humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2026-04-28 02:15
what does github copilot do? ELI20ish
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@melfie@lemmy.zip 2026-04-28 00:54
Just as open weight models are getting good. Qwen 3.6 27B just dropped with claimed performance approaching Opus 4.6, but it can run on a Mac with a M-series SoC. I tested it out today on a M4 Pro with Ollama and Cline and was impressed with its reasoning, but it was slow. Going to try with llama.cpp tomorrow and mess around tweaking it for speed. ai.rs/…/qwen-3-6-27b-local-coding-model AI coding agents are useful, but it’s time for the cloud-based models to chill out so we can get cheap RAM again to run our shit locally.
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@halfdane@piefed.social 2026-04-27 19:46
I mean, if AI gets too expensive, companies can always hire juniors to replace them 🤣
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@Nighed@feddit.uk 2026-04-27 17:53
The almost endless opus usage couldn’t last to be fair. I assume those costs are closer to the real cost to provide the service, ouch!
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@davidagain@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 05:30
How else are they going to begin to recap their billions and billions of debt? Someone has to pay for all those data centres, all that hardware, all that power, etc etc etc. It will be the companies that have come to rely on AI. Sure, for now, AI is a lot cheaper than an intern, but it doesn’t become an expert like a human does. And Amazon used to be cheaper than other retailers right up until they had achieved vast market share. This cannot be the last 10x price multiplier they pull. Not even close. Firstly they’re way, way, way off from recouping their costs, and secondly, they’re still way, way off market value for an incompetent human intern who isn’t learning much.
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@unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2026-04-27 16:55
Of course it is… Funny though, bc nobody really uses it at work, so our pricing should theoretically go down… But I doubt it, MS will find a way to make it go up
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@trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-27 23:53
Man, they couldn’t have communicated this more confusingly, if they tried.
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@rodneylives@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 17:07
I could be really cruel right now, I could point out to people how this is chickens coming home to roost, how it’s always been grossly subsidized and underpriced, how the game was always getting users, companies, the country, the whole damn world hooked on these slop machines and then once they’re reliant on them to jack up the price hugely. I could be really mean about this, I could lord it over people, I could point out how they’ve been dupes this whole time and in the process traitors to all of humanity. I could. i think I will.
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@eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 17:07
> Users on annual Pro or Pro+ plans will remain on their existing plan with premium request-based pricing until their plan expires, however, model multipliers will increase on June 1 (see table).  holy shit, 9x the previous cost. which was already not great. I was on the fence about cancelling it, but thanks for making up my mind, MS
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@UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2026-04-27 18:29
Gonna be hilarious when the people who haven't been paying attention realize that they just replaced workers with shit that doesn't work AND actually costs more.
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@civ@lemmy.civl.cc 2026-04-27 20:14
https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/ right now is entertaining
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@Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 2026-04-27 18:20
Getting de-skilled is starting to look like a very expensive gamble and this is just the first price hike, expect more to come. And expect them to criminalize open source models as well with some national security concerns or something.
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@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2026-04-27 17:49
Inline completions are genuinely useful, I’m mostly replacing them with local models though. They are slower but free as in beer (once you pay the hardware cost).
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@thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 2026-04-28 01:34
[Ed Zitron got it right](https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-microsoft-to-shift-github-copilot-users-to-token-based-billing-reduce-rate-limits-2/)!!
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@PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 23:36
Related: [Microsoft and OpenAI announced end of exclusivity agreement today](https://meyka.com/blog/msft-stock-april-27-openai-deal-ends-exclusive-partnership-2704/)
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@vane@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 17:38
All 0 multiplier gone from pricing.
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@vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-27 17:58
Well, I'm officially canceling my GH copilot sub. Wtf is this? Been feeling like we were going to see a cheap ai compute rug pull soon. Imagine paying for gpt-4o in 2026.
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@raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 22:48
And nothing of value was lost.
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@alpha1beta@piefed.social 2026-04-28 04:12
We're not solidly into the enshitification stage of the AI bubble. But unlike most things, it's never created value and only drains revenue.
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@sturmblast@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 14:46
I literally just signed up for the $10/month plan... Guess ill just run my own git server.
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@mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 16:25
"AI Credit" fuck !!!