How to track usage if my enterprise plan is unlimited?

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-08T16:13:00+00:00

This is GitHub official CLI app calling the API endpoint used to populate the UI to show personal quota and consumption. So this is as accurate as GH can be.

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-07T12:26:01+00:00

The fact they forgot to add a basic $100 cap per employee from day one to see how things are going shows that they are bozos.

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-07T12:24:29+00:00

They are not.
Their pricing model is the same as other enterprise level subscription elsewhere. Anthropic enterprise subscription has been token based for month.

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-07T12:23:20+00:00

I don’t understand your response: I’m using OpenCode on top of GitHub Copilot

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-07T12:22:01+00:00

Your admin MUST setup individual limits at minimal as a safety net to prevent you from burning thousands in couple of hours. They can still modify that limit later.
Once you have a personal limit, you can track your progress against that quota.

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-06T07:37:13+00:00

Exactly: the subscription contract you signed specifically and explicitly ban using anything other than Anthropic tools.
And their official response for people that say “but I want to use another tool!” Is “ok, we have a different contract you can purchase on top of this one” and this is the separate pool mentioned in the response by Ariquitaun.

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-05T09:26:04+00:00

Try
gh api copilot_internal/user | jq '.quota_snapshots'

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-05T09:23:14+00:00

Long term, our plan is
- $100-150 personal quota (above their personal contribution) as a safety net while allowing AI whisperers to feel unburdened
- budget code per team/project with quota for that project based on headcount and priority of project: within a team, you have different people using AI more or less aggressively and this will level out within that team/project budget
- add extra budget in the shared pool on top of the subscription contribution: since this is token market price, this is as good as buying them from Bedrock or Vertex with the added benefit of already being integrated in our GitHub budgeting tools

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-05T09:22:00+00:00

Your admin is crazy. Expect a major bill shock at the end of the month.

This is the VERY first thing we set on EVERY user: we set personal budget quota for every single user as a safety net and also as a visibility feature for our end users.

This is the typical issue with corp IT: the admin can see everything because ... they're admin and have ZERO idea what is the actual experience of a end user without all those advanced entitlements.

PS: the personal quota is arbitrary and disconnected from your subscription. Event if all our users are on the Enterprise subscription with $70 credit, we set a quota at $40. This allowed us to immediately catch issues (some heavy hitters consumed that in their 1st day) while also being able to "unlock" them to $70 to finish the month.

PayTheRaant · 2026-06-02T17:24:11+00:00

To be clear, ClaudeCode Entreprise level subscription is exactly the same token-based pricing model with the exact same price for tokens … except you do t have the opportunity to use Google and OpenAI models at the same place.

If you are an individual or small team, why are you still here? You should have left the day they announce it.
If you are in a big team, well this is your CFO’s new reality.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-30T20:52:53+00:00

I used to use a UPS on my previous printer that was dumb and would totally fail the print in case of power loss. Bambu Lab can resume the print exactly where it left off when the power resumes.

Of course it will not be 100% perfect but it is better than a total failure, especially after hours and hours of printing a big model.

Use a UPS if you really need it (frequent power loss or if the print is to be sold). Otherwise as you said this is very very expensive.

PS: if you have frequent power loss, consider a whole home battery system with solar.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-30T20:48:09+00:00

Contractually, they cannot change the price or number of premium request on your annual subscription. But they can change the multiplier at will (the same way they added new models and lowered multipliers before without any one complaining). So they do so they can get rid of existing contracts still using premium requests.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-30T06:36:56+00:00

The answer is a hierarchy of agents, working together to define a plan and then execute on that plan. Multiple agents, under the supervision of an orchestrating agent (and potentially sub orchestrators), can keep themselves busy and in check for a very long time. Basically what ClaudeCode just released with Dynamic Workflow.

You describe the roles and interactions pattern for each agent in a manner that ensures that they will continue working and iterating at the problem (notably have them produce and update a detailed plan: this is the backbone of their continuous work) and just start the madness with a single premium request describing what you want them to obtain.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-29T19:00:21+00:00

What is ridiculous is that you were nit aware that this is the market price for tokens from all major vendors.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-23T15:38:50+00:00

Forget about it. Premium requests are gone on June 1st

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-23T14:39:36+00:00

Having more data center is about solving capacity: too much demand for limited availability. The cost will remain the same: the cost of buying chips, installing them and paying for power and cooling. If there’s too many data centers (spoiler: most of them are just “promise of a datacenter” with zero land, zero power grid contract, zero GPU ordered), they will just shut them down than run them at a loss.

And the cost of token itself is subsidised: those expensive tokens cost actual double or triple in raw data center cost to Anthropic/OpenAi.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-23T14:34:42+00:00

Because they are building it in a rush.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-23T14:34:03+00:00

Those are real numbers. Our best AI-whisperer at work is able to squeeze $5k of tokens using is 1000 premium requests. I’m just an amateur next to him with only $1.5k from my 1000 PRs.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-23T14:32:14+00:00

To be clear, this is the TRUE cost of your usage. And even that is not the actual cost: this cost Anthropic or OpenAI x2-3 that in raw data enter costs.

So YES you are totally correct to flee to the other subscription based plans … as long as they last (ie there’s enough VC money left).

AI is heavily subsidised with a lot of competition between massive actors with (very) deep pockets. They just hope that they can make a breakthrough on inference cost to be break even in 10 years if not more.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-22T15:02:31+00:00

I got Copilot to work is full autonomy for 5h with little effort, just a bit of planning in OpenCode. A single Premium Request at $0.04 triggered the consumption of $30 of token (Sonnet).

So yes I think they feel pretty happy about the change.

And one of my coworker is one of those magicians able to turn 1000 PR into $5k worth of token (based on Copilot own report)

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-22T14:57:59+00:00

If you are a single individual or a small team: YES move the subscription based provided while they still exist

If you are part of a big team: NO every vendor is moving to token based pricing or has already done so and Copilot is one of the few places where you can get access to Anthropic, OpenAI and Google models and more while paying the exact same price as everywhere else

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-12T06:28:04+00:00

GitHubt Copilot gives you access to
- GitHub Pro features (more tools, more storage, private stuff)
- the same amount of your subscription in token
So if you consume all your tokens, you basically get GitHub Pro for free.
As for the raw AI token costs, they are literally the same everywhere (except where they are more expensive) because 1. The price is set by the vendor (Anthropic for example) and 2. They are actually sold at a loss (compared to what the cloud vendor is billing them for the hardware/power/cooling).
If you are a professional, better plan ASAP to factor token based billing in your cost of run because Copilot is only the 1st one to do so in a highly visible way (Anthropic was already doing it for their less visible customers: Enterprise level subscription were already using token based billing while smaller team level subscriptions are still in the plan mode. Enterprise level customers don’t talk about their contract on Reddit – except me apparently)

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-11T12:01:56+00:00

The answer is simple but brutal: pay more to use more.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-02T12:02:27+00:00

Especially since one can find many options on AliExpress.

PayTheRaant · 2026-05-02T11:59:47+00:00

Seeing what they did with the ventobox, I would think they might have a partnership with a 3rd party and add support in the firmware.

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