Post #2620819
2026-05-16 23:14 UTC
Microsoft releases cost calculator for GitHub Copilot for the new token usage based billing. Previously you were being charged per request, kind of like hiring a cab and paying the same whether you went to the next corner or the next continent.
Turns out Zitron may have been seriously low balling the actual cost to subsidized billing ratio.
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@dgerard@awful.systems 2026-05-17 22:08
this is likely tomorrow’s Pivot
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@V0ldek@awful.systems 2026-05-18 12:07
This looks worse than I expected and I am a certified shittalker, that’s crazy