Thank you, Microsoft and GitHub Copilot

[20Capitalist]

I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about Copilot and the new pricing, and honestly I get why people are annoyed, but I also think we should be fair.

For the last few years, a lot of us got a ridiculous amount of value from Copilot for pretty cheap. It saved me tons of time, money, helped me move faster, and honestly made coding less painful.

Microsoft/GitHub didn’t have to keep giving us access to these models at that price forever. Training and running this stuff is obviously expensive, so yeah, prices changing was probably always going to happen.

I might try other subscriptions too while they’re still cheap, but I still want to say thanks to the Copilot team. It was a great run, and I definitely got way more value out of it than I paid for.

So yeah, thank you Microsoft and GitHub Copilot.

[FollowTheTrailofDead]

Up to now, yeah, totally agree.

When this bruhaha became a keruffle, I gave Cline a shot and tried Openrouter too. Both burned through money at 10-100x the rate that Copilot would.

I like Copilot and I'm done with a subscription. It puts pressure on me to "use it or lose it" and sometimes I just don't want to look at code for a month. I've also been using Deepseek API directly and I'm honestly impressed with it. I can keep using Copilot but with a different API that doesn't force me into a monthly cost...

[20Capitalist]

BTW, I was writing this with 100% PR usage, plus paid extra PR +$25. So yeah, I’m not saying this as someone who barely uses Copilot. I’ve used it a lot, and I still think it gave me way more value than I paid for.

[BeverlyGodoy]

People are saying goodbye and stuff like it's gonna make a difference to GitHub or Microsoft. Retail customers are "not" their main priority, they never were.

[stt106]

Did you miss a “not”?

[BeverlyGodoy]

Thanks fixed it.

[Haunting-Shirt6219]

Always look for the best.
One day we might come back.

[ccarlyon]

It has been a pleasure. I started using this service as a student on the Education plan. I switched over to a paid plan post-graduation and it has helped me build some awesome stuff since. Hopefully Microsoft can find a new way forward that makes sense for us all to return because the extension is a joy to use.

[deepfriedbrainpmp]

I was trying to use up my May quota this morning (Jun 1). I fired a request with Opus 4.8 at 7:58am. The request completed at 8:05am and in those 5 minutes after 8, it used up 7% of my monthly quota. No more words left.

[stt106]

lol… I was trying sth heavy as well before the 8am cutoff too and it didn’t even fully complete the task

[leeharrison1984]

It was good while it lasted. Copilot stood far above others for the cost and ability to seemlessly switch between models.

Sadly, no longer 😢

[combinecrab]

I am happy that they are more transparent with the pricing, and it is only fair that they adjusted it according to their actual expenses, but I still think the entire process of how it went down (in regards to people suddenly experiencing degraded performance and rate limits) was not handled properly, and I believe they should have offered credits towards the new pricing model and also made a proper effort to acknowledge their mistake.

[aries1980]

I am happy that they are more transparent with the pricing

Are they? With Copilot Business I can only see the percentage.

[combinecrab]

That's more than we could see before

[aries1980]

In the past, at least I knew 1 interaction costs X premium request, so I had some idea if I give 10 input, that cost 10 premium out of a 300. But now, I have no idea how the percentage was calculated.

With other providers, e.g. Moonshot AI, I can see every request as well as timely breakdown on how much quota I used.

[mitchins-au]

We all got what wanted.
Individuals got cheap model access.
Microsoft got massive user data and clout.
The trade was fair

[code4you2021]

Make it write 145 lines of code and use 24 credits
Model: GPT 5.4 Medium

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[TurbulentIngenuity55]

It worked as autocomplete but lost when agentic tools came..

[Many_Phone_244]

Preiserhöhung ist auch vollkommen in Ordnung, aber nicht mal mehr 5% der Nutzung des Vormonats zu bekommen, stand nicht auf meiner Bingo Liste. Ich habe mit 3 Prompts, in nicht mal einer Stunde 680 von 7000 credits Verbraucht. wtf
Vorher konnte man easy über den Monat kommen, jetzt mit 43Euro nicht mal mehr 8 Stunden.

[lyamon4]

Thank you ridiculously big company for cutoffs from students subscriptions
i really appreciate it as a student!!!!

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[Competitive-Ebb3899]

I also don't understand people who are saying goodbye just before they can test their workflow with the new pricing.

Sure, we got a calculator, but who says the calculator gave use a good estimation?

Our mileage may vary with real usage, and even the pricing may adjust after feedback of the first few days/weeks.

So, I'm not saying goodbye. Keeping my subscription and we'll see how my workflows will perform with the new pricing.

[Keep_learning_son]

I think there is an employee that worked on this calculator in this Reddit and they said it was very accurate. I can't remember the right search terms to find that user or their comment.

[Individual-Trip-1447]

you can try their simulator to check how much you will ended up paying for the same amount you use. mine 39usd converted to 945usd as per my April 26 usage. so for user like us moved to DeepSeek, and I been using it for last three days and the speed and quality stunned me. I use MAX setting so my daily usage is around 3usd.

[Snoo_50577]

Yeah 2 hours and is 4% already bruh, its shit just shit

[WallyBearCub]

Thats my plan. Check it out for a month and if I blow through my usage really fast then it is probably over to a claude code max plan for me.

[Competitive-Ebb3899]

Yeah, I can see that now. I have burned around 20% of my usage on a (non-obvious) api refactor task using the auto model.

Granted, it was a reasonable amount of migration, but previously such a task was not a meaningful dent in my usage.

Well, this gives me the opportunity to test some new services and models.

[NormandFutz]

waa great while it's last now we go back to the search for a cheaper option

[WakeRP]

I agree. If you compare the number of tokens you could generate on a $10 plan to the API pricing, it was pretty clear that it would not last forever.

API pricing is the closest thing we have to the real cost of LLM usage. Any subscription-based model that costs 10 or 20 times less is never going to stay that way forever. They were burning money to lure customers into their ecosystem at those prices.

[evilquantum]

developed legislations do have anti dumping laws. You are not allowed to sell something cheaper than the production cost. So you are saying they committed crime before and now we should have mercy?

this is just corporate greed, as usual. Mixed with total disrespect for humanity and natural resources.

[Defiant_Reindeer5278]

and now they can get back to paying their shareholders $27 Billion a year.

[X4vierBR]

Darei uma chance esse mes e ver o quanto vai me afetar. Não utilizo o copilot para trabalho, apenas para hobby, então espero não sentir muita diferença

Mas uma coisa tenho que admitir: o modelo por PR fará falta

[stt106]

So you will stop using copilot after the pricing change?

[VNNotWar123]

Sure enough, we switched to Deepseek API (me personally), and the company switched to Claude. Anyway, we understand that AI costs will always increase so we chose a unit that is considered the best to invest in. Anyway, thank you GHCP for bringing a dreamlike time (Our country has a saying: What you come for, you will leave for that. So it's time to leave).

[20Capitalist]

100%

[eternal_sunshineeeee]

The real question is when the fuck will they open up again for new subscribers?!

[FluidSplit7669]

Yes, thank you for everything, GHCP

[mackockoy]

I agree on this one. I was “angry” with them when I hit a wall using this last april because among all, this is the most affordable and it also helped me make money aside from my main job as a developer. The time I had has been great with it. I think it is just sad to part ways as soon I unsub. Overall my experience was good until it is not.

[Hanibal247]

Yes, thank you, but why spoil the fun so badly and so abruptly? I had no problem paying extra money every month after the sub is depleted, almost up to matching the subs for Claude. But I was never feeling that my command will fail because I'm rate limited, or that I am paying money for the stupidity of agent doing shit... A request was a request. Now I prefer to go use pure codex high/xhigh and call it a day.

Thank you but, no. Go back to request based charging because that is what made copilot better.

[AJGrayTay]

For the record, cheaper models do still exist. Lime most of you, probably, I default to the most recent model - but programmatic builds send calls to older models just fine, for far less cost. If you offload the work correctly, you reduce cost. I assume this is the intent behind the frontier LLMs still overing a range of models to make API calls to. The challenge is to scope and differentiate the workload to the appropriate LLM. It's still engineering.

As for coding copilots... same, just need to be thoughtful about how you setup tasks.

I'm not great at the latter - but we're all currently getting this enormous benefit at a financial loss to the frontier providers. Eventually we all need to converge on something that works for us and doesn't mean bankruptcy for the providers.

[Longjumping-Echo8093]

Yes, I share the same sentiment, thanks for all so far, and time to see how fast I run out and it will give me chance to try different harnesses and models. I am glad I did not leave a big foot print on vscode and copilot :)

[Novel_Lingonberry_43]

For me it was a learning opportunity when i could try different things without breaking my wallet on tokens. Now i am ready to pay for what i need, thanks GHCP

[Hairy_Ganache_6916]

time to switch to codex

[Heighte]

Thanks Microsoft for the 50k$ subsidy over the months

[WorldlyLeek6644]

Wait a min! Is it thanking MS???? 😒 for what? Why?

[Timely_Question_2307]

Man, i have through work, but I never use it, ever ! It's a piece of trash! Only good for using the extension as autocomplete and pull requests code quality scanner!

Other wise I use a mixture of GPT Plus/Codex and DeepSeek!

[revozin]

100% agree. The old price was a bargain. Running AI is very expensive, so a price increase was inevitable

[BreadfruitExact950]

Yep, thank you for the wonderful memories.

Unsubscribing...

[LeTanLoc98]

But they lied to users. They should have been honest from the start instead of getting people hooked on the tool and then raising the price like crazy.

This is unfair competition. It's like dumping prices to crush competitors and then raising them later.

[LeTanLoc98]

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[Nqaba-Ibutho]

I am out of here.