All GitHub Copilot plans are now on usage-based billing #197089
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So the answer is basically: if you hit your limit too quickly, you should upgrade and pay more? I get why GitHub moved to usage-based billing, but the numbers feel way off compared to the previous system. I had only two short sessions in the VS Code extension, with maybe 2–4 prompts total, and somehow that already consumed 210.5 AI Credits/Tokens/Whatever. Under the old model, that kind of usage would barely make a dent in my monthly quota. Now it feels like a handful of normal interactions can burn through a noticeable percentage of the month's allowance. What worries me, and most of the users, isn't paying for usage. It's not knowing what a few everyday prompts are going to cost. If developers can't reasonably predict their consumption, it's hard to trust Copilot as a tool they'll use throughout the month. Honestly, this feels like the kind of change that pushes people to look at other providers or even go directly to the model vendors instead of using Copilot as their main AI tool. More transparency around how credits are consumed in real-world VS Code workflows would go a long way. |
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I had 300 Premium requests included in the university teacher program (enough for 14 days of vibing), now it's Credits. Noticet after 50 % usage warning after 2 hours of vibing. It eats tokens like a Dodge Ram gas. "Good job" MSFT! |
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I just used up 30% of my monthly quota on a simple renaming task on a small python application. This is price gouging at its finest. I for one will not be upgrading my account to get more credits and instead will be cancelling it. This used to be a great tool that I looked forward to using but now has deteriorated to a baseless money grab. Thanks, Microsoft and GitHub, I will not be recommended your products going forward. |
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after 6 days of light use |
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Shocked by this too, did a tiny bit of messing around and I'm at 44%. What I did today would have been <5% historically. This is wild. Claude code I guess here I come. Or maybe an API key? This is so annoying. |
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API prices became usage based for Claude. |
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My GitHub account is associated with Fu-Jie, and I have been a long-time annual subscriber. My annual membership was originally set to expire in approximately two months. Earlier today (June 1, 2026), I clicked the "Refund" button in my account settings out of curiosity—not with the intention of immediately cancelling. I expected this action would lead to a confirmation page, not process the refund directly. However, the refund was executed immediately without any secondary confirmation prompt. I believe this is a design flaw in the refund workflow. Any action affecting payment and subscription status should include an explicit confirmation step to prevent unintended consequences from accidental clicks or exploratory actions. The absence of this basic safeguard led to the unexpected cancellation of my membership. To clarify: My request is not about renewal, but about the value of my current active contract. My existing membership had not yet expired and still had nearly two months of service remaining. Given recent changes to GitHub's billing policies, the terms and benefits under my current contract hold unique value during this remaining period. Once refunded and cancelled, renewing would not provide the same conditions. Given the above, I request that my original membership status and expiration date be restored, and I strongly recommend that your team improve the refund process by adding a necessary confirmation step. I look forward to your reply. |
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Eu também fiz isso no passado e ocorreu o mesmo, eles nem perguntam, te cancelam na hora. Muito louco isso. |
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Hi @Fu-Jie, Thank you for writing in and explaining the situation. We understand from what you shared that clicking the refund button processed immediately without a confirmation step, and that this was not your intent. We appreciate you flagging this as a UX concern. I've noted this feedback and shared with internal teams for investigation. Regarding restoring your previous subscription: this falls outside what I'm able to action directly. We cannot resolve account related issues in this public forum, and I'm sharing this information with the appropriate team to review whether your original subscription and expiration date can be reinstated. I'll follow up once I have more information. Thank you for your patience. |
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one afternoon pro+ limit 85% 
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Yes here same 2 days work 7K credits burned.. god bye GitHub.. you are not more payable, and its close to robbery! besides Copilot keeps you busy after restart to fix the VS again.. +its a shame thins so many developers here put things for free with all there know how, which get robed too. Years a go GIT was relay good now its just a massive rib-off...very sad! |
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I was a Github Copilot beta tester, then one of the first paying for the service. I was an evangelist of Github Copilot. Today I canceled my subscription. I am switching for Antigravity and Claude, and I am also considering testing how good the new Cursor is. |
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Same here the costs are exploding in just a couple of days. It is expected that some raises are necessary but these exceptional higher use of the Agents models and costs are way out of balance |
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did the same |
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Subject: Large day-to-day difference in Copilot usage for similar work Hello, I am reporting a large difference in Copilot usage between two recent sessions on the same repository. On 2026-05-31, I was able to work through a long session and the usage remained within a range that felt predictable. On 2026-06-01, a session that felt comparable or smaller in visible scope consumed much more of my quota. From my point of view the difference is easy to verify and does not match the apparent amount or difficulty of the work performed. I understand that internal context, tool payload, or other service-side factors may exist, but the current accounting behavior is not transparent enough for planning real project work. Please clarify whether the accounting model changed or whether hidden context growth is being billed in a way that users cannot see. I can provide screenshots, approximate session times, and a short written comparison of the two sessions. 8 hours not heavy work... Regards, |
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It is disappointing to see the response to these concerns shift into a 'blame game' where users are essentially told they have a 'skill issue' for not optimizing tokens, rather than GitHub providing a transparent, predictable estimation model before requests are run.As it stands, the 'integration' advantage doesn't justify the cost or the lack of predictability. For my personal work, I’m moving to Codex and exploring other providers immediately. |
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I hope you realize that Codex will do the same as well if they get the huge amount of transferred users. The old rates were simply massively underwater financially and MS has drawn a line. |
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That is a "them" issue. They should not have made a product with high value, low cost, tie it into systems that a majority of developers use, push it at every turn, then yank the proverbial rug out saying "Oops! Too expensive." |
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I mean, it's immoral but also entirely predictable and a classic business strategy. You were effectively all on a discounted preview. If you look at API costs on any frontier model, it is obvious MS was eating over 90% subsidy here. MS may live on a mountain of money but the board would never approve of this forever. |
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Dumbest decision ever.... |
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Guess what? It's called effective management, hah |
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I upgraded to GitHub Pro ($48/year) but downgraded it back to Free because I cannot subscribe to Copilot at this time. |
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Switch to claude code |
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but at the new consumption rate, that should give you about two days worth !!! |
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Hm, wondering if there will be similar changes for the many Copilot variants in M365 and general Microsoft products in the future. |
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@DanielRuf 👋🏻 Thanks for the question. Our team here supports GitHub Copilot specifically, and we don't have visibility into billing plans for Microsoft 365 Copilot or other Microsoft products. For questions about M365 Copilot, Microsoft's product and support channels would be the best resource. I am assuming this was posted in jest, but answering with added context for you or any other users where the info may be helpful. |
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I had faith in you.. Honestly, I regret not taking the refund offer you made. I genuinely think you're going to lose at least 80% of your client base. This is so ridiculous. It's far better to pay in real money and not by token. The base usage is ridiculously low. |
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I hear you.. Sound like a trap indeed. So sad and uneven |
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The new pricing model is outright robbery!!! I've already canceled my GitHub Copilot plan subscription!! |
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I think it is more of a pendulum; yes, intially a lot of people will leave, but I have a feeling they will come back... eventually. |
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most likely they won't for a fairly simple reason... you have set your whole workflow on copilot, adjusted every single part to your needs and you had to, forcefully, to change to another app, another workflow, another settings and so on.... once you got used to that new one, you won't be coming back even if the older one is better just because you are tired to going back and forth... you most likely won't be doing any of this. you will stick to the new one and start adjusting yourself |
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I'm using VS Code with GitHub Copilot and I chose LLM GPT 5.4 Mini, but the platform is deducting the cost of Gemini 3.5 Flash, and because of that, my credits are disappearing without me using them. |
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I'm currently using SONET 4.6 and it's charging me for GPT 5.4 mini, are you kidding me? |
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@jakteixeiraf 👋🏻 Hi there, Thank you for reporting this — I want to make sure we understand what's happening. To clarify: you selected GPT 5.4 Mini in VS Code Chat, but your usage report shows charges attributed to Gemini 3.5 Flash. Is that correct? A couple of things to be aware of:
Could you please:
If the CSV confirms you're being charged for a model you didn't select for those specific interactions, please share that detail and we'll investigate further. |
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the admin itself is a f*****g bot :) |
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How in the hell can 1 prompt which last month would barly cost a cent, now take up $4.51. this is ununsable and needs rolling back. |
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Yes one small UI bug fix 1,50$ lmao |
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Imagine , 2 calls , 550 credits so if i'm in Pro plan = 3 commands -_- |
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The new pricing model is outright robbery!!! I've already canceled my GitHub Copilot plan subscription!! |
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Check out the input/output costs for some of the agents, it's insane. Claude Sonnet is 300 input, 1500 output, 30 for cache. |
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So why has the Pro plan reduced its usage limit by almost 100 times compared to before? I also discovered that the |
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👋🏻 @SuperManito Hi there, Thank you for flagging this. Regarding the usage limit change: The billing model has shifted from counting flat requests to measuring actual token consumption (expressed as AI credits). These are different units, so a direct numerical comparison between the old request count and the new credit balance isn't apples-to-apples. Under the previous model, every request counted as "1" regardless of complexity. Under usage-based billing, a simple one-line completion costs very little, while a large multi-file generation costs more, reflecting actual compute used. Importantly:
Regarding model quality: Model behavior feedback is best surfaced through the 👍/👎 buttons on Copilot responses in VS Code - this goes directly to the team responsible for model quality. If you're seeing a consistent degradation, that feedback is valuable. For managing your usage: |
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You should have tested this on people instead of using AI. Most of us are willing to pay $10/month but not $100 or more per month. The mystery billing is problematic because we can use up a quarter of our budget on the 3rd and end up with nothing left by the 10th. Then we are stuck trying to decipher the zillion lines of AI generated code in order to debug problems created with the assistance of AI. I hope you will consider how this impacts your customers. |
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Brother you can't even run hundreds of thousands of tokens on a middling, non-Agentic model for $10/month. As someone who has used independent providers and hosted my own locally, frontier models are staggeringly expensive. Power users were eating up thousands and thousands of dollars in model use. |
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Except they did do that |
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You still got the year you paid for, they're just opting out of offering it going forward. I'm not trying to defend MS' actions here, just the logic behind them and how predictable it was. Have you seen what OAI or Anthropic API key rates are? |
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In case anyone is curious on the value comparison, this is what I am seeing on the $10 plan using GPT-5.4:
The 100 credits is an upper estimate of what I have been seeing if you assume larger prompts. I have seen as low as 10 credits and as high as 60 so far today. On average I seem to hover around 33 credits per prompt. |
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@github Community Admin And what if the output is completely useless? Users still have to pay for it—and on top of that, they then have to spend additional time fixing the mistakes in an often lengthy and expensive response. Furthermore, the creativity is completely lost, if you constantly have to monitor your token consumption and then realize, that your tokens are gone, before you even reach a viable result. You really should overthink that, otherwise you will loose a lot of customers... |
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Join the $10Club :) I am not going to change it at all. I just want to see where it goes. I hope they change their way of billing and continue to support the developers. |
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GPT-5 mini lol |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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In the previous thread about Usage-based Billing it seemed that a common gripe people had was that unused tokens do not roll-over into the next month. To my knowledge, the topic was never addressed by GitHub. Are GitHub able to disclose the factors contributing to this decision? While GitHub make a valid point regarding the convenience of having one bill and one set of usage controls—I’ve opted to stick to Pro+, burn through my allocated credit in a week, and then pivot to using OpenRouter for the remainder of the month. OpenRouter offers a similar set of advantages that Copilot has over other providers. It can be used within the same VS Code interface. Plus it has more models and credit rolls-over for up to a year. |
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Open Router can't change and edit files, it is useless for me, as I am not a programmer, I am a systems admin. |
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Try opencode (has a web ui and vscode plugin) with openrouter as provider. Add some specialized agents and you're off. You can even mix and match providers as you wish. Basically supports all of them since if not supported directly you can input any openAI standard API as a custom provider. |
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That may have been true some time ago. I can say with absolute certainty that using OpenRouter within VS Code is as seamless as using Copilot’s own models. If you ask Google today, the AI response will likely give you some outdated info about requiring an extension for it to work. So I understand the skepticism. Creating an account is free. Why not give it a try using one of their free models? That’s what I did last month when I was weighing out my options. |
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what do you mean? get token. connect in VSCode. all AIs that support tools connected throuhg standard VSCode can use 100% of tools there. vision, files, everything. from gemini class models to deepseek or anything, local or cloud, does not matter. as long as they speak OpenAI API. |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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Posting here so I can still subscribe to the chaos |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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I've been a paying Copilot user and this new credits system is simply unacceptable. In less than 5 hours of normal work today — the very first day of the new billing — I've already burned through 50% of my monthly plan. This is not a pricing change, this is a bait and switch. We paid for a tool, and overnight it became something we can't afford to use the way we always have. I'm canceling my subscription unless this is reverted or seriously reconsidered. |
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What?? Github, but you just said to use short question, one topic per question to keep small context and now you recommended to repeat content. You mean your BIG but cached context. Great. Just continue spent money. |
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This looks much better Opus 4.8 - but this is not Copilot, with Copilot it would have been 2 min. on the same credits... |
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I have the same issue, my usage is 10 times higher, 30% of my Pro+ limit per day, up from a maximum of 3% previously. Unfortunately, I had to cancel my subscription because these rates are unacceptable. |
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Microsoft is tatally insane. |
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We are not the main target customer anymore. If you read the news, you can see that large companies are paying millions for this type of service, they don't need users like us. |
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You're right Microsoft is trusted by a lot of companies but I don't think they realize when you do customers like this they remember it |
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Time to ditch Microslop then and go with linux! |
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Well, my IT lead already looks where to limit Github Usage and try to figure out if it was a necessary usage. Actually you need good models like Opus in Enterprise context, but if time isnt crucial or you havent a customer who spends tons of money for development, I see no reason to use GitHub Copilot anymore. Its too expensive now |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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This isn't what I signed up for, nor what I expect from a product like this. This is nothing other than profiteering. My subscription will be cancelled. |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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You single-handedly spammed my email by writing this under so many other comments. Not cool, my guy. |
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You took our data for free to build and develop your AI tool, and now you're raising plan prices to make us live in hell. Shame on us for trusting you! @github |
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This is 1000th post in this thread =) |
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We need 100k tokens for the max plan. 10k is a joke that is a single session (one days work). - #Microsoft #GitHub #CoPilot. If adding $50 / $100 a day for your average coder in "token use" will get them, A. Fired, B. Homeless, C. Unable to finish work after being able to work with an agientic workflow the last year or more then D. AI and other startups will now fail became they cant afford the models. Where the the local model that supports "Tools, & Vision". - I think the idea that they included only 7k tokens for the pro plan is a total joke, it also broke the entire market of "AI TOKENS" and what fair is, when the consumer is left with no choice, the concept of NEW TAX by way of tokens, when the servers, hardware, software, energy all cost money just to be here, online. This has broken vibecoding, the market of AI Tokens, then the list is on from there. The real kicker @ GITHUB is that in long-term you have now just pushed 90% of yoru "CoPilot" users to figure out how to run local models, in that case you will find less returning users. I would hope @ Bill Gates or whoever will make this right and return the market, workflow, and users money! !FixTheToken !TokenTAX - SatoshiUNO on Networks.Chat |
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Well since tokens are now used as currency, then there is now a clear monetary value for all the data that has been scraped for teaching these, also for every prompt that has been used for developing the product. So, mankind should charge the AI companies for royalties. All connection attempts by bots to our services shall be charged and not allowed before agreeing to terms. If AI companies want to charge per token, then they must also pay per token. This will kill internet, but perhaps shall pop the bubble. |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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Adding my voice to the growing number of users blocked despite having an active additional usage budget. Setup: Copilot Pro, 7,000/7,000 AI credits used, additional usage enabled, $300 budget set. Result: still fully blocked with the message "You've reached your additional usage limit for your plan." I understand GitHub moved to usage-based billing to give users more flexibility and control. But what's the point of a budget setting if GitHub can silently override it based on undisclosed internal criteria? The documentation vaguely mentions limits based on "usage patterns, billing history, and verification status" but gives zero transparency on what that actually means or how to resolve it. The user experience here is genuinely broken: the UI lets you set a budget, implies it will work, charges you for some usage, and then blocks you anyway. That's not a billing system that's a false promise. Upgrading to Pro+ or waiting until the next billing cycle are not acceptable answers for users who have already opted in to pay for additional usage. Please provide a concrete fix or at minimum a clear, honest explanation of what these hidden limits are and how users can meet the criteria to have them lifted. |
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Even for Pro+ or Max+ same issue.. So they want everyone to stop using it indirectly. |
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I'm sorry but increasing the price of your product by 220-310% overnight isn't anywhere near the "I'm giving my users more flexibility and control"-concept. It's right next to "I need to kneecap my users so that they use the product much less because it's not profitable as it is"-concept though, and one could even consider the remarkably short distance to "I don't give half a flying duck about my consumer users, working with enterprise clients is way more profitable"-concept. |
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I'm a student who recently obtained the GitHub Student Developer Pack specifically to access GitHub Copilot. I was genuinely excited about it as a learning and productivity tool during my studies. However, I've now discovered that Copilot for Students has been paused — and I'm left with nothing. No access, no clear timeline, no workaround. I'm now struggling between free-tier alternatives that don't come close to what was advertised as part of the Student Pack. I want to add my voice to the growing number of students in this situation: the Student Pack is one of GitHub's most visible commitments to the developer community. Pausing Copilot access without a concrete timeline or alternative undermines that commitment entirely. I'm not asking for a workaround. I'm asking for:
Students don't have the budget to absorb this gap with a paid plan. That's the entire point of the Student Pack. Please treat this as the priority it deserves. |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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I cancelled my account. RIP copilot I had so much fun with this application, I am seriously wounded. Hopefully something will come along to fill the void. 😭 |
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DeepSeek is a total and better replacement |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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Max plan is certainly not worth it right now. Codex and Claude Code don't have the transparency that some request here, but their reset cadence and allotments are far more usable than Copilot. Like others have expressed, a single 5.5 request for simple tasks can eat ~1% of the monthly max usage limit. Meanwhile using 5.5 on Codex Pro (same price), the same task used ~2% the 5hr limit and less than 1% of the weekly limit. I am in a hybrid workflow with a decent chunk of manual coding, so I don't want to move to an agent-first IDE. For those of you in a similar position, I think the Codex VSC extension is "good enough" for the moment. I recommend setting hotkeys to go to next/previous change ( Still, I'd be surprised if Copilot is supposed to function this way. The product isn't viable in its current state for individuals, and given how the competition performs, it seems like Microsoft would be better off not selling Copilot to individuals at all. It's a bad look. I assume some type of adjustment is coming within the next couple weeks, but needless to say I will be cancelling if not. |
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I agree with that. |
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Claude + VS Code extension for it is pretty good. There is no extension for VS, but that is fine. In the end, even GitHub CoPilot is less well integrated in VS (no auto mode, still. It took a while to get the "Plan" agent...). The C# dev kit is good enough. |
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Don't Claude Code and Codex need separate subscriptions though? I mean besides the Copilot one? Also, it's been written multiple times by now, the point with this change was precisely to kneecap Copilot for consumers and limit the usage to autocomplete and a handful of agentic sessions per month, since it wasn't a profitable model as it was. You do not increase the price of your consumer product by 220-310% overnight otherwise, and you definitely do not increase it without having done precise calculations of how big of an impact it will have to your consumer users and your PR/brand. |
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The most important point is that the additional usage limit is hidden, so you suddenly hit it while working. This is a disruptive change that precedes higher pricing. |
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I'm a Pro+, used 65% for now. In the past months, I used 10%. So, you microsoft is totally insane, you just want money, regarding our user's experience. 
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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Cancelled today, two days before switching to the new monthly billing. Without minimum quality guarantees for the generated code and without returning credits for code obviously not doing what requested even if trivial, the new costs are not justified. Too many queries end up looping around answers to trivial questions without ever converging to a working and clean solution, consuming credits and without any option to request such credits back. Additionally, the behavior towards customers, with the sudden change of the conditions of a subscription, the unexpected removal of top models from Pro plans, and the limited plan options crossed the line of what I consider acceptable from a vendor. |
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Looks like they are ignoring all of us that built them. |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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Gentlemen, there is no point in writing their dissatisfactions, they don't care about ordinary users, let's hit their wallet together with these screenshots. Fuck you copilot! |
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Deepseek V4 is cheaper and equally user-friendly. |
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I believe GitHub has been gradually stepping back from its responsibilities, and it’s likely we’ll see a noticeable decline in users and repositories over the coming years. There are already plenty of valid reasons to reconsider relying on GitHub as a primary platform. In my view, it makes more sense to host repositories on more transparent and community-focused platforms, such as https://codeberg.org, which tend to take their role and responsibilities more seriously. |
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That's a noble goal, but let's not kid ourselves, it'll take a whole lot more for GitHub to lose its status as a primary platform. Not that they can't do it though, I'm sure they're on the right track. That said, with that recent change and how it was implemented I assume it's clear to everyone what GitHub thinks about its consumer users and their expendability, which is on par with a usual soulless corporation, as with its parent company. |
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It must be stated quite clearly that GitHub is far more than just GitHub Copilot; after all, its primary function is serving as a Git platform. |
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Thanks Captain Obvious |
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On 2 June, my Pro+ was at 95%; as I mentioned earlier, I decided to give DeepSeek a go. A screenshot says more than a thousand words here. |
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Token and request usage is intense! What does your workload look like? |
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@YuriySamorodov I'm using VS Code with Kilo Code in Agent Mode, powered by the DeepSeek API. The workload consists of autonomous planning, architectural brainstorming, and large-scale refactoring across a medium-sized codebase. The high token and request volume comes from the agent continuously injecting entire file contexts and running multi-step execution loops to complete these coding tasks. |
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All GitHub Copilot plans are now on usage-based billing
Hello GitHub Community,
Usage-based billing is now in effect for all GitHub Copilot plans. Please refer to our initial announcement and today’s changelog for more details, and you’ll find an FAQ below.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I buy as much additional usage as I want?
After you consume your included AI Credits, you can enable additional spend by updating your budget to keep using Copilot. However, we may limit how much additional usage users on individual plans can consume based on their usage patterns, billing history, and verification states for their GitHub account. When you hit the limit, Copilot features that require additional AI credits will pause. You can either wait for the next billing cycle or upgrade to a higher plan tier to continue using Copilot. We recommend upgrading to the next plan for more included usage and higher additional usage limits.
What are the additional usage limits? How much additional usage can users purchase?
The limits increase by plan, so the limits for users on a Pro+ plan will generally be higher than those for users on a Pro plan. They also vary depending on a user’s usage patterns, billing history, and verification states for their GitHub account. These limits are subject to change, and you’ll see an in-product notification when you hit a limit.
How will we know when we hit an additional usage spending limit?
You will get an in-product notification when you hit the additional usage spending limit.
Why can’t we purchase as much additional usage as we need without upgrading to a more expensive plan?
Additional usage spending limits are a temporary measure to mitigate abuse while we observe user behavior under the new billing model. We intend to pull these back in the coming weeks, at which point you will be able to purchase additional usage without upgrading your subscription.
Why do the spending limits vary? Why are some users treated differently?
Limits vary by plan tier and account signals, including usage patterns, billing history, and verification state, to protect service reliability and prevent abuse.
How exactly are you determining the amount of a user’s additional usage spending limit? What's the specific criteria?
We look at a variety of factors, including usage and payment history with GitHub. We can’t disclose specifics, as it would give bad actors more details to work with to circumvent our safeguards.
Will we always have to upgrade to a more expensive plan when we hit an additional usage spending limit?
No, we are working on solutions for allowing users to purchase as much additional usage as they need without upgrading to a more expensive plan. That said, our subscription tiers are designed to deliver more value as they increase in cost.
If I upgrade to a more expensive plan but then decide to downgrade, what does that look like? Are there any restrictions on when I can downgrade?
You can downgrade at any point. The downgrade will be a “delayed downgrade” where you will stay in the current, more expensive plan until your next billing cycle. Then you will be charged for the downgraded plan and the lower included usage will take effect the next calendar month.
Please note that if you upgrade from a Student plan to a paid plan, downgrading will take you to a Free plan and you will need to reapply for Student plan.
You said you’d loosen restrictions once usage-based billing is in effect, but sign-ups for new users are still paused. What’s going on?
We understand the frustration. Usage-based billing is now in effect, but we’ve needed additional time to put safeguards in place to ensure a reliable experience for all users. We plan to re-enable new sign-ups for all Copilot plans in the coming weeks.
What does it look like in practice to upgrade? Can you give an example of what the flow looks like?
Once you hit an additional usage spending limit, you can upgrade to the next plan to continue using Copilot’s full set of features (code completions and next edit suggestions remain unlimited for all paid plans). By upgrading, you will be paying a prorated amount of the next plan’s cost based on your billing cycle. Your accrued additional usage will be charged during your next billing cycle.
For example, once you hit the $29 additional usage spending limit on Copilot Pro and decide to upgrade, you will pay a prorated amount of the $39 Copilot Pro+ cost and receive $70 worth of AI Credits that are currently included with the Copilot Pro+ plan. On your next billing cycle, if you stay on Copilot Pro+, you will pay the full $39 for Copilot Pro+, the $29 in additional usage from Copilot Pro, and any additional usage from Copilot Pro+. A similar experience applies from Copilot Pro+ to Copilot Max with the corresponding costs.
When can I sign up for Copilot Max?
Copilot Max is available to existing Copilot Student, Pro, and Pro+ users that would like to upgrade for more included usage. We plan to enable Copilot Max sign-ups for new users when we re-enable sign-ups for all Copilot plans in the coming weeks.
Will you continue to offer flex AI Credits after the current promotion ends?
Flex allotments may vary from month to month. They’re designed to adapt as the economics of AI evolve, including model pricing, new models, and improvements in efficiency.
Why should I pay GitHub API prices when I can just go pay the model provider directly?
Copilot gives you a single subscription across every model family we support, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI , with model availability varying by plan— without managing separate API keys, billing relationships, or rate limits with each provider. You get one bill, one set of usage controls, and access to all of it across VS Code, the Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, Copilot Code Review, and tools like OpenCode — without configuring each one separately.
For a lot of developers, the value isn't just "access to a model." It's that Copilot is deeply integrated into the tools they already use: pull requests, code review, the editor, the terminal. That integration work, including the context from your repo, your PR diff, your open files, and more, is what turns a model call into something more useful.
Will users continue to see the same level of restrictive rate limiting we’ve seen over the past few months?
We’ve loosened rate limits considerably, and users should not experience them with normal use.
Can I set up budgets at the user-level for my organization?
Yes, admins can now set a universal budget for users or override for specific sets of users. As users approach their budgets, admins will receive email notifications and can adjust budgets anytime from their billing settings. See our budget management documentation for details.
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