Github Copilot customers report up to 100-fold price hikes — AI sticker shock bites as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing

Github Copilot customers report up to 100-fold price hikes — AI sticker shock bites as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing

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Jame5 To wit, the AI allowance in each of GitHub's subscription plans has three tiers: the $10 Pro plan gets you 1,500 credits; the $39 Pro+ plan contains 7,000; and the $100 Max subscription nets you 20,000 credits. While it's good for Microsoft to specify precisely how many tokens each plan includes…. They aren't though. Unless credits and tokens are being used interchangeably here. Reply

cknobman I really hope my company starts getting massive bills for CoPilot, Codex, and Claude. Already sick and tired of the "you must use AI for 80% of your work" crap. Reply

Bruno Ferreira Jame5 said: They aren't though. Unless credits and tokens are being used interchangeably here. Fixed, thanks for the heads-up. Reply

gondor I am not sure which plan our company uses but we got 4900 credits on 1st of June (as indicated by Copilot extension for JetBrains IDE), which doesn't fit any of above mentioned plans 🤔 Reply

Gururu cknobman said: I really hope my company starts getting massive bills for CoPilot, Codex, and Claude. Already sick and tired of the "you must use AI for 80% of your work" crap. I've asked AI to compute this logic for me and it agrees. Reply

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