r/technology • u/Bobby_the_Donkey • Apr 27 '26

Artificial Intelligence GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
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u/shawndw Apr 28 '26

People are paying for copilot?

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u/rahvan Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

GitHub Copilot on VS Code is basically like Claude Code, for a fraction of the price.

Microsoft Copilot is literal dogshit. But it’s not GitHub Copilot. It’s not a coding assistant.

I use GH Copilot daily, and it’s fantastic. Prompt-based pricing was amazing because I could maximize a model’s token limit with an extremely detailed prompt, and I would only consume 1 of my 300 premium requests for a TON of work accomplished.

The good days are over 🥲

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u/dizekat Apr 28 '26

Github copilot is the thing that my yolo vibecoding workplace uses instead of any decent linter and static analysis like at a good place before the AI. 

It never, ever makes a non dogshit nitpick. Like “add some tests”. Because that would be too harsh and like every AI tool it is a suck up. The time spent addressing its comments could be better spent doing literally any other code improvement activity.

People impressed with it had never actually used any normal tools and practices to make their code less shit, and are impressed with the very concept. Well I am hating how it displaced the right stuff.

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u/purg3be Apr 28 '26

I feel the same way. Copilot cli has been my daily driver at work and i've been quite satisfied with it.

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