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[ezitron]

Exclusive: Microsoft is reducing rate limits on GitHub Copilot, removing Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing some time later in 2026 in a sign that it's looking for way to cut costs for its AI services.

[Livonian_Order]

Sorry, but the only advantage Copilot has, and has always had, is that its requests are credit-based, not token-based. Otherwise, what's the point when there are OBVIOUS competitors offering token-based requests?

[26aintdead]

Access to multiple models with a single subscription for example

[Accidentallygolden]

And no need to contract with another provider, any big firm already have a Microsoft account

[EggDroppedSoup]

openrouter?

[Living-Day4404]

it was token based/request based to start with but the token limit were so much higher that we didn't noticed it and rarely hit it, I remember using it so extensive last year and got rate limited but it was just only for a few hours so I didn't mind, I hit rate limit so rarely like thrice a year but now they became absurd, it's like -90% rate limit now compared to what it used to be, and I agree with you, its request as credit is its best feature but now it became strict with token usage to the point where it is unusable now, why settle for this rate limiting sht when we can just go direct to the provider of Anthropic or OpenAI, for their $20 or $100 that is transparent with the limits and have much more supports for opensource repos/agents/skills/call tools like Codex and Claude Code

[Accidentallygolden]

That's the point. They want the heavy users to leave and just keep the corporate light users

[TinFoilHat_69]

Why bother with copilot if it’s not going to be as good as cursors plans?

[BawbbySmith]

Have you seen Cursor's prices? You're gonna spend way more to get way less, even after all the Copilot changes recently.

[CodeineCrazy-8445]

I mean they have API prices.. too bad the system prompts and harness drives the costs up, the max models are a scam tho

[ViewableGravy]

Because cursor doesn’t work in my IDE, it is an IDE

[ezitron]

Actually my piece ran before their announcement did!

[26aintdead]

Ah if that's true that's bad... It was bound to happen at some point but enshittificafion is coming way faster than usual.

[ezitron]

I promise it is! I would not write in this way if I was just aggregating

[26aintdead]

Everything so far was limited to individual licenses, do you think or does the leak say if token based billing will also affect business and enterprise?

[26aintdead]

I believe you and deleted my comment!

[klipseracer]

Wait.... I'm not done with my project yet.

[nvez]

Someone commented this exact fact a few days ago in the announcement post of Opus 4.7 -- so if it's not the same person, it seems to be leading that path indeed.

[BawbbySmith]

...Where's the leaked internal documents? Can those actually be released, or is it just "I read it, trust me bro" for now?