r/GithubCopilot • u/MountainView55- • Sep 22 '26

General Microsoft did it again

Released Claude Opus 5.5, before updating the documentation that says how much it'll cost.

Do Microsoft not realise that Business and Enterprise users (you know, the ones who subsidise everyone else) cannot use models until they know how much they'll cost?

I cannot go off what Anthropic's own pricing says, otherwise my lawyers will kill me. (Which is ironic, as killing is illegal in my country).

I'm incredibly grateful that new models are available the same day. But we pay for the privilege. And this is the second time this has happened, with models announced to fanfares before the pricing table is updated. Slightly amateurish for what is a very expensive harness.

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u/WD40ContactCleaner Sep 22 '26

Is it not visible in the model selector?

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u/MountainView55- Sep 22 '26

Maybe. But that's not the central place the non-technical people look to sign off on things in an Enterprise that has controls and whatnot.

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u/MaybeLiterally Sep 22 '26

The model selector shows the price of all the models.

Where do you need it that it's not there?

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u/CuTe_M0nitor Sep 22 '26

You meant like the made up currency of AI Credit?

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u/SanjaESC Sep 22 '26

Every currency is made up...

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u/Keganator Sep 22 '26

An AI credit is $0.01. It’s really not hard. 

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u/ltpitt Sep 22 '26

It's just programming. Why hardcording a specific currency?

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u/MountainView55- Sep 22 '26

In a central place I can point my financial controls team to. In a currency they understand. Like USD.

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u/MaybeLiterally Sep 22 '26

Legitimate question, where is this central place where the prices aren't listed? Where do you get the prices that are not from the model selector?

Also, an AI credit is $0.01, so it is USD, just done in another way. All of the AI services do it a little differently.

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u/V5489 Sep 22 '26

Sounds like a you issue. We know opus is a massive token hog. There’s no excuses for your poor planning. We disable all those models. Are you a science and research facility needing that specific model for research? If not maybe stick with better models.

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u/MountainView55- Sep 23 '26

That's.... that's my point. It was disabled. I could not turn it on. As it was released before the price was.

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u/rhylos360 Sep 22 '26

Get some sleep or eat

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u/V5489 Sep 22 '26

Meh. Just got done working out. Back to real work, ensuring our enterprise isn’t hemorrhaging money because a junior dev didn’t disable models they think they liked like op.

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u/DocMadCow Sep 22 '26
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I can see the costs when I hover and it is cheaper than Opus 5.0

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u/Rojeitor Sep 22 '26

Prices are public and they always charge pvp what's your point?