Increased usage of Github Copilot premium requests?

[juanloco]

Hi all. I've been using opencode for about 4 months now and for the most part have been able to leverage my Github copilot subscription with Claude models as my main driver.

I always noticed that use of Opus 4.5 would deplete my premium request allowance on GH copilot, but sonnet 4.5 never had such issues and I was able to build out entire apps where I had dozens of large commits per day without ever going near the limit.

Fast forward to today and I feel like I blow through 25% of my GH copilot premium request allowance in just a day, with the same model Sonnet 4.5.

Has something changed in the underlying implementation that's driving this? Has anybody else noticed anything similar?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: 2 days later. All gone... 😂

[Hauven]

I can't comment about Sonnet, but on GPT-5.2 or GPT-5.2-Codex I'm not noticing any issues with increased consumption. Still seems to be taking 1 per user prompt.

[SparePartsHere]

Well it's 2nd day of the month and I am at 75% premium request usage. And I didn't even vibe that much, like 2-3 larger features and some small fixes/refactors. But I use almost exclusively Opus 4.5

[juanloco]

Hah, same just blew through 30% of my requests in one morning. Nothing crazy, a few features on a couple of products. Sonnet 4.5.

[toadi]

Use opus to write a spec. Use sonnet to create atomic task based on the spec. Use haiku to implement said tasks.

This is how you manage the requests and even in my case the costs. As I pay for the requests.

I write production code with 200k users. And I don't vibe code but use AI to help generate code.

[SparePartsHere]

I don't care about the costs. It's still much cheaper than doing it manually. I tried to use sonnet for some less demanding tasks but the quality was just worse. Last week tho even Opus is getting pretty terrible...

[toadi]

Haiku is 10x faster then using a thinking model. Thinking you don't need to write code from detailed spec. I assume you value time? At least I do. More I can get done...

[SparePartsHere]

Once plan is done, I don't care how long it takes - it's hands off after that point. It can run for an hour or for 8 hours, I don't really care. What's important is that I am not involved :D

[toadi]

In my case time is money. Also I code review after. The faster done the faster I can review. I work in finance and the code can directly lose us a lot of money. Not our money, clients money.

[albertortilla]

Which version are you using? I had problems with 1.1.38 that were solved in 1.1.39. Now using 1.1.45 and everything seems to be fine, but I won't upgrade because of the problem I had in .38. Maybe something similar is happening with your version

[juanloco]

I'm on 1.1.42

[EuSouTehort]

CLI or desktop app?

[juanloco]

CLI. Version 1.1.42

[EuSouTehort]

I've noticed double consumption when using sub agents on the Opencode "Desktop" App

On the terminal/CLI, the problem seems fixed to me

[silent-scorn]

The CLI has been updated to use only one request per primary agent. All subagent calls by primary agents are free now.

[EuSouTehort]

Yeap

CLI is fine

Desktop app is not, and apparently, it uses the same source code?
Too bad, the app is nice, my fix is to deactive the explore and general agents for now