New token system and scaling is 10X trash

[TheStorkClub]

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Copilot in GitHub

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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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[CyFer47]

This is honestly the worst update of GitHub Copilot ever done.

It is only the first day after the update, and my student AI credits are already completely gone after just a few agent executions. The scaling on this new token system is absolutely broken. How is anyone supposed to use this tool for actual development when an entire monthly allowance vanishes in a matter of minutes?

Because of this ridiculous change, I have decided to completely move to Codex. You took a tool we relied on and made it effectively unusable overnight.

[heldtja]

New token scaling is absolute trash. I reached my token limit after 2 days for an PRO subscription.
@github fix it or we leave it.

[ImanFatima]

same thing happend to me my PRO subscription reset on 1st June, and today on 2nd June i consume 71% of quota limit

honestly i almost use it only 4, 5 time

[antonn]

Claude is way better in this.. atleast they give us much needed pause/Break (lol) for sometime until limit is reset.. This new GHCP model is pretty bad as no one wouldhave imagined in 2nd day of month they are tokenrupt .. High time to move to Claude or Cursor!!

[zinthose]

Yeah, I'm dropping my prosub and fully switching to antigravity.

[TheStorkClub]

Its also an account of how much this new plan has throttled the token usage of the system to the point of arguing why should I keep subscribing for usage that will run out in a week...

[TheStorkClub]

It would be awesome to provide you my usage from earlier today but it looks like your finance and product team also thought it was a great idea to throttle this usage too.... The great squeeze is upon us...

[TroyCoderBoy]

@TheStorkClub Get rid of Copilot and subscribe to CODEX or Claude with a MAX plan. Way better value.

[markdicks]

I've only prompted 6 times today and I'm on 15%. It's insane. Normally I'd only be 15% in after 3 days or so. It's been 1 hour

[cozuya]

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.

[cozuya]

gpt-5.4 xtra high on a pr

[cozuya]

ITS NOT EVEN JUNE YET

[CarmJos]

Fxxk, me too. I just use copilot to review my code, after that, I cannot use anymore.

[TheStorkClub]

@maheerCodes - your openclaw is still running on this - you gotta be careful of your own tokens you might run out as well!

[FurtherAway-Dream]

“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.”

[TheStorkClub]

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....

[arshvinw5]

Yup talk about it 2 request and I have already burned 26% of it on 1st of June....

[czinczaar]

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.

[bettyposteringwilly-netizen]

I CANNOT believe how expensive this got all of a sudden. SO disappointing.

[lionng429]

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.

[lionng429]

FYI, I just ran another similar request with Claude Sonnet 4.6 model, but switched to Low Thinking Effort. It burnt 150 credits. So the $10 Pro plan would only do 10 requests for me in a month.

[czinczaar]

I really hope this is a mistake on their part and they will fix it, otherwise they absolutely lost their minds

[moonlune]

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!
Perhaps this approach does indeed allow the platform to turn a profit, but it will also drive users to other service providers! Of course, maybe that’s exactly what the platform wants?

[lennartvdvelden]

Exactly. What the hell am I supposed to glean from 4 dots? Ridiculous

[CarmJos]

W.T.F? I can only run 5 AI commands with current AI credits.

Completely unusable.

R U KIDDING ME COPILOT?

[tlingard]

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:
402 {"error":{"message":"You have exceeded your monthly quota","code":"quota_exceeded"}}
-- Resets on Jun 30 at 7pm

(yep, checked billing setting, and it already switched over to June usage)

that's just ... awesome copilot. It's not even June yet.
To quote one of my all time favorite github comments: "what in the actual name of fuck"

[zeuszwc-afk]

Feedback on Copilot points deduction: As shown in the screenshot, I only submitted 2 queries, yet nearly 10% of my points were consumed. Even the highest-tier plan priced at 100 USD does not support many queries.

[reydajp]

At this point, better to switch into Claude max or Codex pro plan

[bettyposteringwilly-netizen]

I use VSCode. What are my options for using another AI coding assistant? Can anybody recommend one for me?

[TroyCoderBoy]

I terminated my Copilot Pro+ subscription and subscribed to a Claude Max plan and love it. I would recommend subscribing to either a OpenAI Codex plan or Claude Max plan.

[esthrim]

I'm planning to subscribe two accounts of claude pro subscription, which cost $40, same with the github copilot pro+, and can be cheaper only $34 per month if annually. But the minus is we need to switching between account. but it's more worthed.

[iPoetDev]

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.

[arshvinw5]

Funny how many companies fired developers to lean heavily on AI but never invested in helping people learn new skills.

Now everyone's being asked to pay more and more just to maintain the same level of productivity.

Turns out the real cost didn't disappear it just moved from salaries to tokens.

[kenkanike7777]

i think it's time for us to say goodbye from github copilot it, out of my budget now

[zhifeiyue]

agree, 10X trash

[helkaabaladt]

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.

[TroyCoderBoy]

The speculation is that this is their way of killing off a non-profitable product by making it effectively unusable with this new pricing plan. I bit the bullet and subscribed to a Claude Max 200 plan. Flat monthly rate, no surprises, and I can use it all day and never come close to exceeding limits. Check it out, or Codex if you prefer OpenAI models.

[TMattes]

This is one of the best summaries I've read here about this topic! Thank you!
Software development with Copilot had become highly innovative and creative—until this change was introduced. Now, instead of focusing on creative work, you constantly have to monitor your credit usage and watch your credits disappear as if it were nothing! This is the death of any innovation and creativity—and the subscription isn’t worth a cent anymore!

[safemac]

this is CRAP!

[usturgeom0307]

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 ?

[barpas]

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.
GitHub, if you could get the same prices from Google or Anthropic as they sell for subscriptions, it would make sense. What you've done is a mountain of stupidity.

[fdl-dev12]

The consumption is extremely fast. Running Speckit’s SDD workflow for just one task used up the entire monthly quota.

That’s ridiculous.

[Neil013140]

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！

[iMattPro]

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?

[piikee]

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!

[piikee]

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5e7a7748-8050-4840-90ee-4b4bde64e872
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[Yuniac]

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.

[hugolicea]

This is absolutely ridiculous; you are spending in one day what you normally used to spend in a month.

[Organ1x]

Last month with Copilot Pro+ I used 90%, now in 3 days I have used 60% of the credits

[sasengineering2025-a11y]

Here same.. i never reached limits.. but now in just 2 DAYS i cranked 7000 AI Credits seriously?? .. GOD BUY GITHUB! HELLO Claude Code!

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