New token system and scaling is 10X trash #197524
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Yeah I'd buckle up. Just showed up here because the new system you put in 1.5 hours ago looks like this: All of my monthly credits were used by one code review prompt and didn't finish on something that would have been done with 1 premium request last month, 1/300th of our monthly meter. |
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“That's ridiculous. I used to be able to ask 1,500 questions a month, but now I can only ask about 130 or even fewer.” |
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I'm literally giving up on prompts that are costing too many tokens and doing it manually instead .... the Great AI transition.... Already up to 20% of my monthly token usage.... |
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the new system is crazy greedy. I made a small agent request on a script with 500 lines with gpt 5.4. The request didn't require extravagant reasoning, but just adding a little bit of functionality. It added 41 lines and removed 6 lines. But it already cost 6% of the 1500 AI credits(so 101 credits).So it means that if I make 10 more small chat agentic request like this one, I would already be at 60% of the 1500 AI credits? Are you serious? This is absolutely ridiculous. I wanted to wait for the new system to arrive before I make a decision but this is retarded. I am cancelling right now. |
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I CANNOT believe how expensive this got all of a sudden. SO disappointing. |
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I got this problem as well. One simple prompt request and it burnt 330 credits in minutes. I immediately set the additional usage budget to $0 to avoid potential billing shock. It is truly disappointing, and now I'm going to switch to Claude. |
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I really hope this is a mistake on their part and they will fix it, otherwise they absolutely lost their minds |
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Yes, the token costs under the new mechanism are unbelievable! Changing the explicit cost multiplier to a hidden graph is, in itself, a deliberate attempt to obscure hidden fees! I tested “Claude Sonnet 4.6” and “Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)” and found that, more often than not, their token consumption is not much different! This is completely at odds with the official promise that “Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)” would consume roughly the same amount of tokens as the original version! |
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W.T.F? I can only run 5 AI commands with current AI credits. Completely unusable. R U KIDDING ME COPILOT? |
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On the Pro+ plan woke up this morning, May 31st, with somewhere around ~35% request used for the month (~65% remaining -- pretty typical usage for me). Set a long running plan execution on auto pilot this evening and grabbed some food. Come back to check progress and by 9pm on May 31st, received: (yep, checked billing setting, and it already switched over to June usage) that's just ... awesome copilot. It's not even June yet. |
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I use VSCode. What are my options for using another AI coding assistant? Can anybody recommend one for me? |
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Yes outrageous. And maybe we were duped from the outset, by being deluded with such a low token cost baseline (as we all know tokens were subsidized). So, while unpalatable, this normalisation of usage reflects the actual cost. So effort expended on 1500 credit was a false economy. The delusion was the Frontier Labs fault/responsibility and their OTokenM partners. Now if you want 1500 credit for actual and same productivity, you need to pay. A classic bait and switch. We were hooked when free keystrokes to create code freely became a chargeable unit for each token of code. However, if you stay in this ... Token efficiency, not token maxxxing, is the name of the game. Like with money and accountancy, getting more from less. It's were the industry is going. API or tool hoping is a marginal gain, as the tide is rising across all Frontier models. Maybe we all run out own models, and still pay for the per unit charge by electricity or hardware. |
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i think it's time for us to say goodbye from github copilot it, out of my budget now |
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agree, 10X trash |
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This new Copilot billing system is absolutely ridiculous. We are paying for a business plan, not buying a tiny prepaid token card that disappears after half a day of normal development. This is supposed to be a professional developer productivity product, but right now it feels like a metered billing trap disguised as a subscription. A few normal coding tasks should not burn through a huge percentage of the monthly allowance. A code review should not destroy the plan. An agent request should not feel like gambling with credits. A business user should not have to constantly watch a usage meter like a taxi meter while trying to write code. This is completely backwards. Copilot trained users to rely on agentic workflows, multi-file edits, code review, chat, planning, and implementation help. Then GitHub changed the billing model in a way that makes those exact workflows financially painful to use. That is not innovation. That is taking the product people adopted and making it worse overnight. If GitHub wants to charge by tokens, then show the cost before the task runs. Show the estimated credits. Show the model cost clearly. Show what a normal day of development will cost. Show what a PR review will cost. Show what an agent task will cost. Do not hide behind vague dots, vague model labels, and post-task credit burn. For business users, this is especially unacceptable. We need predictable costs. We need stable budgeting. We need to know whether a tool can actually support daily engineering work. If a monthly business plan can be burned in a few hours, then it is not a real business plan. This feels like a massive price hike disguised as a technical billing update. If the old system was too generous, then say that. If GitHub was subsidizing usage, then say that. But do not pretend this is just a normal improvement. The practical value of the subscription has collapsed. What used to feel like a usable monthly plan now feels like a small wallet that gets drained by a few requests. At this point, why should any serious developer or business continue paying for Copilot Business instead of using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, or direct API access? The integration is not enough to justify this level of unpredictability. The convenience is not enough to justify burning through credits this fast. The product is not worth it if users have to constantly avoid using its most useful features because they are afraid of the usage meter. This needs to be fixed immediately. Either revert the billing change, massively increase the included credits, or provide a real unlimited/predictable professional plan. Otherwise Copilot Business is no longer viable for real development teams. Right now, this does not feel like a productivity tool. It feels like GitHub took a product developers trusted and turned it into a credit-burning machine. |
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this is CRAP! |
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It's time to buy GPU and run opensource models on our own machine instead of letting GitHub to Fxxx up. I think that's always chipper than you get billed for .. agreed ? |
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The problem is that GitHub is charging ridiculous prices for these tokens—yes, I know—the same as the official reseller prices. However, these resellers are selling the same tokens 10 times cheaper on different plans. For example, someone pulled tokens for $16,000 from the Claude Max200 plan. Gemini has similar price ranges. |
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The consumption is extremely fast. Running Speckit’s SDD workflow for just one task used up the entire monthly quota. That’s ridiculous. |
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我什麼都沒有做,只是請它產生二個command,他就自己一直犯錯,自己迴圈,然後就把我的credit燒光了! |
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I work exclusively on open-source projects. I make $0 from this, as it's a hobby, but a serious hobby for me. GitHub is the home of open-source projects, most of which are by definition, also free and not for profit. $10/month was an easy pill to swallow for having Copilot PR reviews and access to the AI workflows they've been shoving down our throats to use for the past 2 years. In what world, does GitHub of all places, think that 100x upping the cost of this makes sense now for open-source projects? |
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fuck!One day's consumption equals what used to last a month. It might as well go out of business at this rate! If Copilot keeps this up, seriously! |
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Just burned through my monthly credits at the end of the 2nd day of work. Looks like it resets next month?... this is unusable like this, I didn't do anything crazy even, just chat and questions. No point subscribing to this imo. |
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This is absolutely ridiculous; you are spending in one day what you normally used to spend in a month. |
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Last month with Copilot Pro+ I used 90%, now in 3 days I have used 60% of the credits |
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Hello, As of June 1, 2026: Usage-based billing for GitHub Copilot is now live for all users and Copilot code review consumes GitHub Actions minutes, in addition to GitHub AI Credits. As part of this release, we're also launching new user-level budget controls, expanded context windows, and enabling upgrades to Copilot Max. ⭐ For the most up-to-date information, we have provided more details and a FAQ in this discussion. As newer information is available, some details in this discussion may no longer be current. We'll be closing this post and recommend subscribing to the linked discussion for the latest updates and guidance. |
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Its 56 minutes as of the writing of this and using a copilot pro+ subscription and on some relatively simple html work using GPT5.4 XH (due to the lower cost) - I am already at 13% of my monthly usage..... what has gone on? this is ridiculous scaling of usage where something that would be 10% for an entire day of heavy use... whomever in the business thought that this scaling was a good idea just lost some business....
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