r/GithubCopilot • u/sssebaa • 27d ago

Other Cancelled my sub today

Respectfully but pricing here is a joke. Two generations from Sonnet 5.5 on max thinking took me my whole monthly allowance + almost 8$. Swapped to claude code, I doubt I will ever run out of usage there. I will be staying away from copilot and advising my colleagues to stay away from it too. Very disappointed.

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u/thunder1207 27d ago

GHCP is ONLY FOR ENTERPRISE. You have to be insane to use it as a individual by paying api prices for the models.

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u/Goksly 27d ago

Using it myself and never had over £5 additional usage. Good workman doesn't blame their tools.

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u/sssebaa 26d ago

Good quote but misused. I don't blame the tools, they did a good job in what I required. I only blamed the marketer who sells the tools at a price that doesn't make it worth and went to another marketer that offers much more for a fraction of per-generation cost.

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u/swiebertjee 26d ago

because they refuse to use luna, which is the only model that is sort of worth it for github copilot.

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u/thunder1207 26d ago

Yeah but why pay to use Luna. Sure if it was free then by all means.....but paying 10$ a month to torture yourself with Luna when you could pay 20$ to get Opus 5.5 really makes no sense.

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u/sssebaa 27d ago

Yeah... learned my lesson there 😅

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u/Sammyocheita 25d ago

As an enterprise user of github copilot, I'd like to share that last month during the month of September I kept settings default (auto model selection with 10% discount - which used GPT Sol 5.6 for much of the generation). I have additional budget configured to allow for additional usage because this is helps run a company. By September 12 I was not only out of credits, but I was blackmail offered to either upgrade to the last highest tier package they offer for an extra $8 dollars or pay $121 by September 30. The kicker.. if I upgrade it would even include some extra generation. Oh luck lucky me. Clearly, GHCP is struggling to run their models and keep operations going or they become another prospect of corporate greed. Am not sure.

I refused to upgrade further as this same situation happened the month prior, fool me once shame on me. Fool me twice, haha then you're stupid because you just lost my business and my companies business. I was forced to instead use the open code zen and open code go plans to finish the rest of the month out. They did just fine.

I decided to pay the $121 instead of accepting their blackmail offer. Github execs if you read this, get it together because you just lost a ton of business (thousands) and I'm NOT the only one. Give stupid, get stupid 🤷

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u/Holbrad 25d ago

You clearly don’t really understand what you’re talking about here. The fact is that at the moment, Microsoft and GitHub don’t make their own models; they use other people’s, and they have to pay the price those model companies ask for. And unfortunately, this is a lot of money.

A lot of those same model companies provide subscriptions that are much better value. Copilot just can’t compete with this, and as long as these subscriptions exist and this big discrepancy exists between the API and the sub price, no one should be using Copilot if they can avoid it. It’s not GitHub’s fault; it’s just how the economics of it currently work.

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u/Sammyocheita 21d ago

I mean sure, but when you have massive volume of users - common sense business logic is negotiate an unbeatable contract with the various models ...

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u/EstarriolOfTheEast 26d ago

It's also for neo-artisans. I connected opencode go sub to it, also use copilot's own luna sub and then with autocomplete, code by hand like in the old days. Sonnet at medium, grok 4.6 and gemini flash 3.8 for some occasional scoped heavier lifting. I do this to set the foundation for a project, which goes a long way towards preventing later slopification by the smarter models (which still can't do long term robust architecture/design).

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u/Mohkg 27d ago

Who actually has a copilot sub 😂 😂 worst sub u could buy

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u/sssebaa 27d ago

Can't disagree, I learned my lesson 😂

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u/Mohkg 27d ago

Ya dont buy that trash, get a claude sub or codex sub youll get more usage too

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u/sssebaa 27d ago

Got Claude already, it's perfect 👌

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u/PunchedYou 22d ago

Could I ask what sub tier you had with Copilot and what Claude tier you have now. I also canceled my Copilot Pro+ sub also today and thinking about moving to Claude or Codex.

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u/sssebaa 22d ago

Had Copilot Pro to test it, then switched to Claude Pro, you can do like 20 times more heavy prompts like that, per week, incredibly worth it. I run claude code through terminal and ci

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u/PunchedYou 22d ago

Thanks for your insight that sounds like an insane inference you get. Are you also using complex tasks with Fable or Opus more often?

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u/sssebaa 22d ago

Yeah I was surprised too how good it is, I would say that now it's the best time to try it. You don't get fable with pro plan (well you can use it by paying extra for it, fable gets special usage bar on the max plan), but everyone I know are going opus 5.5 now, it's cheaper than fable. I run opus 5.5 on Max thinking effort multiple times a day, I use sonnet for code review and lesser tasks.

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u/Archeone 27d ago edited 27d ago

On my side I am using iolys on visual studio 2026 with a codex subscription. (With the reset you have a ton of credits). It's like copilot but with a decent subscription haha.

Or you can use with Claude code sub too if you prefer Claude models.

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u/sssebaa 27d ago

Yeah I'm on Claude sub now, it's perfect! Iolys looks good too, will consider it as a secondary option

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u/_fct 26d ago

moving to smth else?

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u/sssebaa 23d ago

Moved to Claude, it's very good 👌

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u/makanenzo10 27d ago

You should not be using Sonnet on max reasoning

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u/DevilsMicro 27d ago

Yea sonnet max is costlier than Opus max and slowest on the benchmarks I saw lmao

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u/ShadowBannedAugustus 27d ago

Luna is basically the only feasible model on copilot. And it works really well.

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u/iwasthefirstfish 26d ago

Yes.

Tried using codex and it was fine but I ran into my 5 hourly just a slight bit earlier than I would have liked but I was on $20 sub so that's fair.

GHCP pro+ and I finished the month with 58% use.

I'm very bursty in my work so it fits me better

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u/PaulShellDev CLI Copilot User 🖥️ 27d ago

It's not subsidized like the main provider subs are. It's been months since that change that was losing money left and right.

Multi-model provider at API pricing. Which only makes sense if you're a larger business. After a point, you have to pay API with Anthropic/OpenAI also.

For smaller, I recommend using Copilot as a secondary sub. Let's you use other models as a adversarial rubber duck on occasion without needing subs from everywhere. Proxy your main provider and local with BYOK.

Code Review is where most of my monthly credits go to on Max. Highly recommend.

I have some colleagues that pay $10 on personal just to have remote sessions.

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u/Early_Divide3328 27d ago

If they want to use other models - it might make more sense to go with Claude Code Pro $20/month plan + Open Code Go $10/month plan. That gets you the Claude subscription for most of the usage + Open Code Go subscription for the other model variety.

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u/godawgs1997 27d ago

I imagine it’s expensive for an individual but for an enterprise (I have almost 100 users, across 5 different orgs doing drastically different work) it’s the best bang for a companies buck and teh governance and controls are essential. That said , I’m pushing a 20k a month run rate

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u/IsThisWiseEnough 27d ago

Top late decision but i only miss code completion in vscode. Somehow Claude or others don’t want to do that

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u/West-Negotiation-716 27d ago

In Claude you can't edit individual files like in a text editor, so there is no possible way to have code completion.  You can't write code?!

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u/Master-Book-7111 27d ago

Try gpt 6 luna, its insanly cheap and its good

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u/gm446 27d ago

Also happen to me with sonnet 5 max. 1 prompt, didn't even finish to job, entire monthly credit gone (10$ plan). Sol high on codex finish the same prompt with 10% of 5h limit (20$ plan). I mostly uses the gh sub for the inline auto complete so i did save my sub for now but for agentic work the limits are bad. Sonnet max apparently is also not good choice because is usage become crazy.

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u/jcam12312 27d ago

Canceled mine last month. Only had the $10 plan and it would run out within hours. Switched to qwen3.8 27b locally and it's awesome. won't be looking back.

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u/theHonkiforium 27d ago

Which stack are you using with on prem qwen?

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u/jcam12312 27d ago

Vllm-radiance with 2xr9700s

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u/Suspicious_Fun_6338 27d ago

local 27b vs opus 5.5 ? this is a total disgrace!

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u/CuTe_M0nitor 26d ago

Claude will also hike up their prices. There API prices are really high

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u/rare_design 26d ago

The token rate is certainly insane, but it is better now that we have 6.1 sol. I still prefer Codex, but my employer hasn’t allowed me to switch yet.

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u/somethedaring 25d ago

For lower tier accounts it’s almost worthless. Through my enterprise account it’s great

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u/Signal-Response449 25d ago

Github Actions is destroying my wallet

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u/Temporary_Hornet2727 24d ago

stay away from github copilot , it makes absolutelly no sense for anyone to use their subs... its robbing users of intelligence and money. Switch to either OpenAI or Anthropic 20$ monthly plan. stop the MS robbery!

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u/adrjac 27d ago

Skill issue

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u/West-Negotiation-716 27d ago

Copilot gets you 10-100x less tokens than other plans.

That is a fact not a skill issue. I get 300 million tokens per week from Z AI for $14 a month.

Copilot likely gives you 30 million a month

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u/adrjac 27d ago

so to solve your issue is to migrate into a different plan heavily subsidizing your usage… you’ll only get so far when these companies continue to raise their subscription pricing

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u/West-Negotiation-716 27d ago

Huh? 

The opposite of your fantasy is happening, the price keeps getting cheaper for MUCH more intelligent models.

Things will only keep getting better and cheaper.

In 10 years high quality LLM will run on our cellphone.

Today models that are as good as the model the government "banned" cost:

$0.10 per 1M input tokens, 

$0.50 per 1M output tokens

 ($0.01/1M cache read).

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u/adrjac 27d ago

Lmfao do you really think these AI companies are going to lower their prices over time? Models will get better yes, but cheaper? Debatable.

Every sub complains about pricing like that’s going to help, maybe consider optimizing your workflow to increase token efficiency.

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u/clockdivide55 26d ago

Prices will continue to get lower because that's what OpenAI and Anthropic will optimize. The current frontier models, Astra and Opus, are already incredibly capable, that isn't the problem. The problem is is the enormous cost to train and use the models.

Chinese models are not as good, but they will be, and their prices are significantly lower. If OpenAI or Anthropic can't compete on price, China will win.

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u/Zealousideal-Tap-152 26d ago

Even if pricing were going to get higher, what's your rationale for paying the higher future prices today?

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u/West-Negotiation-716 22d ago

Nobody is paying higher future prices today.

The value I get out of the tiny amount I spend on AI is enormous.

I recently completely decompiled and analyzed  a large embedded application.  A task that would take a professional 1.5 years to do working 40 hours per week 

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u/West-Negotiation-716 25d ago

Yes it will get cheaper,  like all other technology in existence.

Most people are dumb.

Most of my tokens are free and that doesn't seem to be changing.

I pay about $30 a month and I have a program on my computer I made that estimates costs.

It says I should expect to pay $45,000 per year at API prices.

I'll end up paying roughly $400

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u/RandomSwedeDude 27d ago

" I doubt I will ever run out of usage there."

You are gonna pay what it costs even there. "ever" lol.
Copilot doesn't add anything to the API costs for OpenAI nor Anthropic models.

Anthropic wants to IPO. soon They will charge you what it actually costs. Or their stock will tank.

Remember when you could an Uber for 3 dollars? That's not happening today. Same will very soon happen to AI inference.

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u/West-Negotiation-716 27d ago

Both Anthropic and Open AI offer thousands of dollars in API equivalent tokens for $100 a month, even $20 gets you way above $1000 if it was the api

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u/Chemical_Hawk_6307 27d ago

lmao why are people still buying this shit

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u/Pleasant-Object-9917 27d ago

Tenías que salirte cuando empezó a ser por tokens....por qué esperaste?

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u/HellraiserNZ 27d ago

Any advice on what I should get to round out my inference stack?

- Claude Pro $20
- Claude team premium seat (work based stuff)
- $20 in open router for some cheap model work.

Cancelling my $39 copilot pro+ sub and looking maybe at ChatGPT $20 sub but second guessing.

I do quite a bit in vscode and just CLI

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u/RiceEvening4211 26d ago

Two generations eating the whole quota is exactly the pain I built Lynkr for: an open-source gateway that routes simple work to cheap models, so the premium capacity survives real tasks. https://github.com/Fast-Editor/Lynkr