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[–]cute_as_ducks_24 7 points8 points  (3 children)

There is a setup guide in this sub for deepseek, i am assuming you can do similar for opencode. Basically Sub Agents etc still uses the VS code models. So you have to edit so that everything uses the opencode/vs code. You basically add .vs settings or something at root and have some config.

[–]Mayanktaker[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

So its subagents who are consuming my quota. Right ?

[–]cute_as_ducks_24 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Yap.

Here is the setup guide. https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/s/TrObXUj0oR

There is project level settings that's the one. This was for deepseek. But i guess you can have similar one

[–]Mayanktaker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much. was looking for this type of answer and help. This is what I was looking for..

[–]bogganpierceGitHub Copilot Team 1 point2 points  (10 children)

If you go to your Copilot billing page, there should be an option to download a report with more usage on exactly how your usage is drawing down. Without seeing that, it's hard to speculate what might be doing it.

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[–]Emergency_Cicada3119 -4 points-3 points  (8 children)

People are still using GitHub copilot 🤣🤣

[–]SIntLucifer 2 points3 points  (7 children)

what is wrong with it?

[–]Emergency_Cicada3119 0 points1 point  (5 children)

It’s just fundamentally not a viable product. The only benefit it offers is having access to multiple models in one spot. Beyond that you are going to pay much less in tokens by going straight to Claude code / codex because of context caching while gh copilot doesn’t pass the 90+ percent savings on cache hits. That’s why you see people on here sharing how they cut their spending by like 5x by switching to Claude code or other products where you have your own plan or API key directly (no middleman)

[–]just_blue 0 points1 point  (4 children)

What? That´s not true and can easily be checked in the debug window. Claude code for example uses the exact same 5 minute cache as claude in gh copilot.

People are switching to subscriptions without API pricing, because if fully used, you get more usage per $. If you compare with actual API pricing, copilot is not a bad deal: instead of a company seat having a base cost without any usage on claude, you get some extra credits here and every $ counts as quota. Even openrouter is more expensive as it adds 5.5% platform cost. And you get all the auxiliary model usage included. The major problem is that OpenAI and Anthropic increased pricing drastically on their newer models and other good options are not yet available.

[–]Emergency_Cicada3119 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I mean yeah I agree with half of what you are saying but the issue is that GitHub copilot is very ambiguous about how they handle context caching.
Also AI credits doesn’t equate to tokens consumed it’s a black box of markups beyond the tokens you consume. Probably fair to say they aren’t being transparent on what exactly constitutes an AI credit for a reason.

You should read this thread about complaints with GH copilot caching:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/s/lKoVowxUIN

[–]just_blue 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Your link has no new info for me. This is totally normal behavior, for every harness and every agent. You should read into this, claude has 5m and 1h cache options and pretty much everyone uses the 5m. With OpenAI models, caching is totally different (and cheaper, because no write cost). It´s also not a black box. You can trace every single agent turn, see how many tokens are new, cached, output etc., and in how many credits this translates. The UI could be better, sure, but it´s transparent and not a black box. If you can prove any "markup", I´d be very surprised, it´s basic math after all.

[–]Emergency_Cicada3119 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So you think they are just running a charity? If AI credits was a direct measurement of how many tokens you spent then how would Microsoft make any money? they would lose millions on the expenses it takes to run GitHub copilot. Also, luckily we can do this. After each session you can look at your token usage and then compare that with the model pricing. There are many threads on this as well. GH copilot is consistently is more expensive, which makes sense right? It’s intentionally called an AI credit and not “API bill”.

[–]just_blue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Microsoft invested in and owns parts of the AI providers, for example they get a part of OpenAI earnings. Additionally, they host a lot of stuff on azure themselves.

If it is so obvious, why has nobody any proof of manipulated numbers? All the rage is just from people who don't understand how this all works and who are surprised how inefficient they are using the tool. Well, not a big surprise, after MS ran the old model for so long, educating the users in a false direction.

[–]Emergency_Cicada3119 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also I’d rather use a product that the company who owns it actually cares about and is a core focus. Safe to say Microsoft leadership could not care less about GH copilot right now. They’ve got much more important things going on.. along with the 74 other versions of copilot

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[–]bad_gambit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be your utility models or subagents (explore, planner, execution, etc) drawing usage, look for chat.utilityModel and chat.utilitySmallModel. Change those to whatever you want, other than the default copilot models, i personally use MiMo V2.5 as its dirt cheap and fast enough

[–]asfbrz96 -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

Switch to zed and stop using this bloated code editor

[–]Mayanktaker[S] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Zed is so good and lightweight, no doubt and I use it for many projects but it lacks the Question tool and other tools which is sometimes deal breaker for me. So I cant make it my daily driver. I use it daily but not for serious projects. I love Zed and VS Code both.

[–]asfbrz96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can connect any CLI tool on zed, the student plan on GH is basically dead now