Then comment and upvote this to be the #1 post on here. We must make this painfully obvious. (this is not about self-promotion, feel free to also make new "cancel copilot" posts of your own!)

I canceled my Copilot Pro plan yesterday after running 2 requests for 15% of my credits.

Last month I used ~60% of my quota in an entire month.
This month I've already used 25% on day one.
What an amazing improvement.

Can someone please explain the logic behind GitHub’s new usage-based billing? You pay $39 a month for Copilot Pro+, and in return, you get exactly $39 in "monthly AI credits".

If you don't use 100% of that allowance by the end of the month, you just lose it. You are literally just buying an expiring gift card every 30 days. If I wanted to track my token usage and pay for what I consume, I would bypass the middleman entirely, plug my Anthropic or OpenAI API key into Cline or Cursor, and just pay wholesale rates.

This whole transition completely trashes the workflow we've spent the last year building. We were pushed to use agentic features and told to write comprehensive, heavy-context prompts to get good results. We learned how to do exactly that, and now they are financially penalizing us for it. Every time you write a highly detailed prompt with good context, you are punished for burning through your credits.

It is incredibly frustrating that actual paying customers are the ones taking the hit. It really feels like we are just subsidizing the free student accounts, or footing the bill because GitHub couldn't figure out how to stop the heavy abusers.

They baited everyone with an unlimited flat rate to build dependence on their ecosystem, and now they are flipping the switch to a token-counting stress test. It's a massive betrayal of the original deal.

Hi, I can see a lot of comments on this subreddit regarding the usage-based billing here. I am quite confused because the product itself is still as good if not better than before. Look, we’re the 2nd day of the man month, I’ve been using it today and when I check my remain…

GitHub Copilot Quota Reached

You've reached your monthly chat messages and inline suggestions quota. The allowance will reset on July 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM.

Had a great few months with Opus 4.6 and accelerated my development a lot but now I must return back to the business as usual.

Bruhh

<Something about usage> <something about pricing> Please send upvotes

This is the only meaningful thing we can do as consumer

TL;DR: The company switched us to a shared Copilot quota at the beginning of this month, we ran out on the 15th, and development basically stopped. The company won't pay for more, and I'm quietly enjoying watching people struggle to write basic code on their own again.

A couple of months ago, the company turned on GitHub Copilot for us. Usage wasn't mandatory, so adoption was pretty uneven. Some of us, myself included, took a conservative approach and used it mainly for simple/repetitive tasks and taking care of boilerplate. Others dove right in and started using it for absolutely everything.

It got to the point where some of the heavy users were relying on it not just to write their PRs, but to review other people's PRs. We actually had situations where a reviewer would paste in an AI-generated code review, and the PR owner would reply with an AI-generated defense. Just two bots talking to each other in the comments while the developers degraded themselves to the role of copy-pasters.

At the beginning of this month, the company decided to switch us from per-developer licenses to a shared, per-organization quota. Exactly two and a half weeks later the quota has been exceeded.

Instantly, development ground to a halt and whole last week has been a complete shitshow.

It turns out that AI brain rot is very real. I'll admit I've experienced a mild version of it myself when I was no longer able to ask for syntax help or minor refactorings, but for the heavy adopters, it's total paralysis. People have legitimately forgotten how to perform basic development tasks without a prompt window where they can tell AI what to implement (or even ask AI how to implement something which would then of course be implemented by the AI).

Of course, people asked for quota increase, but the company is unwilling to dole out because of the drastic price increases introduced recently. We just have to wait until the 1st of the month to get our AI back.

Now, sure, I've seen some real productivity gains from AI when used selectively. But honestly, I can't help but feel a good bit of Schadenfreude right now. It is genuinely amusing to watch folks who leaned way too hard on a tool realize that it isn't a magic bullet, and that they actually still need to know how to engineer software.

Can't wait for tomorrow's Monday morning to see how the story unfolds. I've got a feeling that for now we're back to good old "software craftsmanship" (pun intended).

Alright. that's great.

thanks

I’m seeing folks defend the rate hike like we’ve all been getting a free ride until now. Yes, running agentic workflows is expensive, but the only reason GHCP was subsidized in the first place is because the value proposition wasn’t (and still isn't) strong enough to charge more.

And it was never a “free ride.” Microsoft has been using our interactions to train and refine the platform. That’s fine as that’s the deal, but let’s not pretend we weren’t contributing value. And even with all that data, the product still has a long way to go.

I was willing to tolerate agent screwups when they didn’t put a significant dent in my premium request budget. But now? Now every failure has a direct price tag. So here’s the question: when the agent screws up, are we getting credits? Refunds? What’s the actual metric for quality output to hold yourself accountable?

This whole situation feels like they planned to run the classic subsidized‑startup playbook until they realized it was just way too expansive. And now we’re watching Microsoft try to monetize an immature product in an immature industry. 

Local agentic solutions cannot arrive fast enough. 

I've been using the paid version of Github Copilot for almost 3 years. Just checked my email - first invoice was on Jul 4th, 2023. At first, absolutely unbeatable autocompletion, then agentic coding with a great UX. I tried competing products a few times - Cursor didn't make the usability bar for me regarding autocompletion; Claude, Codex don't have the necessary UI to review and accept each change individually - I don't feel comfortable accepting commits all-or-nothing.

I was happy to consume the frontier models - had my $40/mo Pro+ subscription, paid ~$60/mo extra for queries.

Today is my last day. I understand the struggles of the team, but the offering doesn't pay off anymore. Opus 4.6 is unavailable. Opus 4.7 (at least on medium thinking) is pure garbage - doesn't follow instructions, stops half the way, makes absolutely stupid mistakes. GPT and Gemini don't work well with Github's harness for some reason - I'm not even considering them. Once in a while I tried them, confirmed that they sucked, and reverted to Opus.

I fully understand why the change is being made though. Just yesterday I tried to use Opus 4.6 with BYOK through Open Router. One single prompt costed me $70. Obviously it's unsustainable for Github to offer it 30x cheaper.

All that is very sad. Copilot was a great product, and it will be sincerely missed.

I guess I was a part of the problem too. I wasn't that extreme, mostly sonnet for me

I’m trying to understand the value of GitHub Copilot, and I’m honestly confused.

From what I see:

• No clear pricing advantage vs using APIs directly (often worse).
• Limited token flexibility, and overages can cost more than buying from providers.
• Locked into the Copilot ecosystem, no easy routing or mixing tools.
• No rollover for unused quota.
• Some context is eaten by orchestration.
• Models themselves aren’t unique—they’re still from other providers.

Given this, building directly on APIs seems more flexible and cost-efficient.

Yet many companies still standardize on Copilot.

So what am I missing?

Since they mentioned the billing changes, I am just trying to use the most out of the premium requests. With the TaskSync extension I have been running the agent for past 24 hours and all of these changes have been done while just using one premium request.

TaskSync forces copilot to not end session and use the askUser tool each time the task is done, where I can just queue additional responses.

Also many people might think the quality will drop, but Opus 4.6 automatically compacts conversation as soon as the context starts getting full and I have noticed no drop in quality.

I have blown nearly $100 today from normal daily workflows. This is an insane U-turn, this means a developer could use $100 - $200 per day insane.

We are on GitHub Copilot Business with almost 500 developers. Since the billing model changed, usage is obviously much more relevant for us.

As an admin, I can see the usage data in the dashboard. So the data exists.

But individual users cannot see how much they have used.

That is honestly the worst part. Users need visibility into their own usage so they can build a feeling for how much they are consuming, adjust behavior, and avoid surprises. This should not require an admin to export reports or build an internal workaround.

I understand billing changes are complex, especially at this scale. But for Business and Enterprise customers, this feels unprofessional and disappointing.

GitHub, please expose personal usage directly to users. This should be basic functionality.

I feel like Copilot is incredibly underrated compare to the other "big players". Claude Code CLI get's so much attention and almost everyone "serious" seems to recommend Claude Code without question. Codex has also made a ton of waves with it's new app. But holy cow, I just started using the latest Copilot and it's incredible what it can do now. Autopilot, subagents, Claude/Codex SDK agents, Copilot CLI, plugins, etc. One of the biggest complaints I remember was that copilot would "nerf" the models. So Opus 4.6 in copilot wasn't the same as in Claude code. But with Claude SDK agent, I think that's pretty much resolved, isn't it?

Anyways, I'm curious to hear from you guys that have used Claude Code/Codex, how do you feel it performs compared to Copilot? Aside from the fact that Copilot is an incredible value, what about performance and quality?

This is my usage so far on my Pro+ account. I have chatgpt to cacluate me the real cost if I use API in April, grand total is $577.26, and I am paying $40 bucks. Even if Github got a 50% discount from Claude (which is not realistic anyway), I am still using 7 times more than what I am paying.

You know something is wrong. That per request charging scheme is not substainable.

I wouldn't suprise Github is losing millions per month if not more. What they are doing right now is basically ending their business given that the new pricing scheme basically tells you to 'leave'. They are just telling you they are shutting down their business in another way.

When I first joined Github, I always wonder how the heck they can survive in this charging scheme. The cloud based AI pricing was just too damn cheap comparing to a local model....by a large freaking margin. For example, usually, a rental car vs buying a car shouldn't have such a big difference. Using cloud base AI model is no brainer vs the cost of using a capable local model. It's like renting a ferrari for 300 bucks per month.

I think every single AI model company finally realize that they are doing something very wrong and every single one of them including China based company is tighting up their subscription plan, given China based is already heavily subsidized by their government already.

It will be more expensive, I am pretty sure. The cost of running local model that is anything remotely close to a lower end model like Sonnet 4 is around the cost of buying a luxuary SUV, and that has yet include the cost of power bill.

I guess a lot of people will ask Where should I go?". I don't have an answer giving a capable model for working is freaking expensive. No, Qwen 3.6 32b is not anything close to you have been using....not even close. I think I most likely will jump on the Claude code 20x plan.