The new GitHub Copilot plans are an absolute disaster

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The plans and pricing that were introduced recently, along with the new credit system for using GitHub Copilot in chat or in the IDE, feel like a complete joke.

Last month I barely used 20–30% of my PRO+ plan, and now the entire quota is gone in just two days on the exact same plan.
It’s ridiculous and feels like a total scam. Why do I call it a scam? Because half of all my credits were wasted due to Copilot freezing, generating things completely unrelated to my request, and overall behaving in a way that seems intentionally designed to drain user tokens compared to the previous month.

Good luck to the company with these new plans this will definitely help other companies take a huge part of the market, because I’m clearly not the only one who feels this way. I literally checked the forum five minutes ago.
My plan will be cancelled 100%, so I have one question: what alternatives do you recommend?

[BuiltBySagar]

After June update the Monthly usage is finishing in a day. If this isn't the glitch and credits aren't refunded, then it's the end for copilot usage. Absolute robbery.
This is a very serious issue and it will directly effect github copilot's reputation. They have thrown themselves into the trash category.

[95chojnas95-rgb]

It is what it is in the end they’re only hurting themselves. Most people will leave because there’s no point using it anymore, and eventually they’ll have to come to their senses.
Luckily there are other companies out there. Switching always slows things down a bit because it changes your workflow, but I’ve already spent some time with Cursor and it works pretty well too.

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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.

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XD

[mberrezak]

That's really cheeky :D

[BuffyLuffy]

rude admin, im unsubscribing and the new changes are pathetic, if i pay for credits with a subscription then the credits should reset on the day its paid, why the hell do i have to wait until the first of the month, how rude to assume people are able to work around your crappy pay model, I SHOULD NOT HAVE MONEY TAKEN FROM MY BANK IF IM NOT GETTING ANYTHING FROM IT, YOU EXPECT ME TO WAIT A MONTH HOW ABOUT YOU WAIT BEFORE TAKING MY MONEY AND GIVING NOTHING, RUDE AS HELL

[ace-1981]

i plan on finishing my project and unsubscribe , it is a complete joke!
it is unusable
and there is no way to contact anyone

[sajjadmx1]

I will quit when my credit ends (lasted only two days) and will migrate to cursor or claude or windsurf.

[Bimbum1337]

already cancelled this shit, pure scam

[andresrogers]

complete malpractice, illegal scam

[otmatf-eng]

Cancelled as well after a shock a I received today. The usage that normally lasted a couple weeks was spent in a couple hours of work. This is just ridiculous. Good luck finding users stupid enough to keep using this scam.

[95chojnas95-rgb]

I just bought a plan in cursor and its a night a day difference 1day run out of tokens at github PRO+ and just to compare Cursor the same amount of work done with 1% plan usage (aslo PRO+ i have bought)

[jtabox]

Not that anyone in GitHub gives half a flying duck, but this pretty much does it for me too. Until last month I never even reached 50% of the credits. Some months I was like at 30%. Now I went to 75% after three sessions. Literally 3 sessions. F that noise and f Copilot, this is disgusting.

[jsnoriegam]

They'll have to start giving a lot of flying ducks if enough people leave.

[jtabox]

There's no way they didn't take this into account when they decided to implement the new plans. I just think they don't care about private subscribers. If that's not the case then it's worse, it means that they are completely clueless about what happens in their own company.

This isn't like maybe 10-15% price increase. Some guy at a hackernews post had calculated that it became 220-310% more expensive, which is exactly how it feels. "Pay only for what you use"-- yeah ok, you forgot to add "but what you use now costs 300% more".

I had 1500 credits at the start of the month, which according to github is $15 and it's almost gone. Wtf am I supposed to do, pay $100 per month for the same service I paid $10/month until last month? Or just use GPT-4o or something? I've already deactivated the extra budget option for copilot, not a professional dev anyway, I'm sure there's other, less exploitative options.

[ChalokhSara]

Same here, i used a model caerfully with a x1 multiplicator, 2h later it was up to x6 multiplication for no reason i juste lost all of my credits with that. It is juste inaceptable to reduce that hight the services....

I am really desapointed

[thinkjrs]

This is not pay for what you use. It's "let's thieve from our users" by playing middleman, doubling or tripling the price of the models, and taking the remainder after cost.

I will also be finding a new solution. This is nonsense.

[jtabox]

In a Hackernews post some guy had made a crude calculation of how much more a task costs with the new system, and it was indeed 220-310% increase. Like, it's truly nonsense, I don't get it how they could even market it as "eyyy, now you just pay only for what you use \o/". Sure, I guess, they just forgot to add "but what you use now costs 220-310% more!".

[holydiver71]

Cancelled after using my allowance in 1 day and i was trying to be careful. shocking.

[mberrezak]

Pure scam. Up to last month I usually spent 60% of my plan. Now after 2 days I am at 70% whit a 0.33 (Haiku) Model and nearly all features deactivated. What is this Joke?? I payed for this. Will cancel my subscription and hope everybody else will do the same. Classic Microsoft move.

[jtabox]

And the thing is this BS change forces you to use dumber models, which in turn leads to stupid mistakes and the agent trying to figure out what it did wrong, spending a boatload of extra tokens until you stop it.

Truly horrible move, might as well have said "we're not going to serve private customers anymore, only enterprise". It would have been much more honest and much less corporate-slimy than this disgusting behavior.

[mberrezak]

Canceled and made a Cursor subscription. More expensive as 10€ a Month, but at least working as expected.

[myalban]

I've been a GitHub Copilot subscriber since the early days and genuinely advocated for it within my team. So it pains me to write this.

The new quota system is simply broken. Exhausting the daily limit before noon is not an edge case — it's my daily reality. When a tool you depend on for your workflow becomes unreliable by design, it stops being a productivity tool and starts being a liability.

I understand the need to manage infrastructure costs, but capping completions to the point where paying users hit walls mid-workday feels like a bait-and-switch. We signed up for an AI coding assistant, not a rationed service.

Either the quotas need to be significantly raised, usage needs to roll over properly, or the pricing tiers need to reflect what's actually being delivered. Right now, they don't.

Long-time supporter, genuinely disappointed.

[Arfur]

My Copilot usage cycle resets on the 1st of each month, and like many others, all my credits were gone within just two days, so I decided to cancel. I then noticed that my payment is actually taken on the 18th of each month, and today is the 19th, so I tried to request a refund for the upcoming month. The request was rejected, which makes no sense given the timing.

I am looking for an alternative to Copilot Pro and possibly even VS Code. If anyone has suggestions or tools they have moved to and actually liked, I would really appreciate hearing about them.