AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
Ars Technica ·
“Even though I was super cautious on the first day, trying it out with a limited number of uses, it still consumed 840 credits,” one user wrote of testing Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Copilot today. …
“Even though I was super cautious on the first day, trying it out with a limited number of uses, it still consumed 840 credits,” one user wrote of testing Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Copilot today. “I haven’t even done any really complex work yet,” another user complained after reported usage representing 21 percent of their monthly Pro Copilot subscription’s credit allotment in a single day. “I have a feeling I’ll be going somewhere else pretty soon.” Using all 8,000 of your org’s monthly AI credits in a single day is… probably not sustainable. Using all 8,000 of your org’s monthly AI credits in a single day is… probably not sustainable. Credit: gxjo / X Amid the pricing change, plenty of GitHub Copilot users are predictably and publicly threatening to cancel their subscriptions or looking for other AI coding options. But others say they have been able to adjust to the new world of usage-based pricing. …
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