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An ongoing discussion on the GitHub community forums includes plenty of customer testimonials , as do X posts from many different users . The overall gist is simple: many users are reporting that their bills would increase by several orders of magnitude, or that the limit is so low that a subscription plan is now either extremely limited or useless. There's even a community cost estimator that popped up a while back when the news first came to light.
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, it's worth noting that in obvious cases like long-running conversations or queries on large projects, it's exceedingly hard to estimate how many tokens any given query will use, as shown by data from a 2025 paper .
AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report
AI cost crisis hits tech giants as employee 'tokenmaxxing' backfires
Key considerations
- Investor positioning can change fast
- Volatility remains possible near catalysts
- Macro rates and liquidity can dominate flows
Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/github-copilot-customers-suffer-from-sticker-shock-as-microsoft-switches-to-usage-based-pricing-customers-report-up-to-100-fold-price-hikes#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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