Well.

Just got an email from GitHub saying they'll be raising prices for Co Pilot.

"To keep up with the way you use Copilot, we're transitioning to usage-based billing, and we want to give you enough time to prepare."

Man, it was fun. Having my tokens subsidized by Microsoft. If the prices go up to much I guess I'll try Deepseek again.

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cedws 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seems like a strong signal the money burning party is coming to a close. Nearly all AI companies have tightened their belts in the past month. Anthropic removed Claude Code from the Pro plan, Z.AI increased their prices, GitHub removed some Claude models from Copilot, now this.

Also, Opus 4.7 seems like a model more intended to save Anthropic money than push the bar.

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0xffff2 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>Opus 4.7 seems like a model more intended to save Anthropic money than push the bar.

How so? By all accounts I've read so far it uses more tokens overall for roughly the same results.

	▲	kdheiwns an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If you're delivering the same results and charging the customer more/letting the customer use the product less, that's saving the company money.

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linhns 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I believe Anthropic added CC back to the pro plan.

	▲	jLaForest 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		the point is that they tipped their hand about where they want to go in the future. They are just A B testing to see how much it pissed off their customers

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0xffff2 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Link to the announcement for anyone else like me who hasn't gotten the email yet: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilo...

Not really sure why I would stick with Copilot after this, and increasing Sonnet from 1x to 9x for annual subscribers is highway fucking robbery. Very glad I didn't commit myself to an annual plan.

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999900000999 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Alternatively, they may convert to a monthly paid plan before their annual plan expires, and we will provide prorated credits for the remaining value of their annual plan.

I don’t understand if this means they’re providing actual refunds or not. For them to straight up go back on their word this had to have been a major cost they didn’t exactly expect.

Save us Deepseek!

I don’t need the world’s greatest programmer for the types of vibe coding projects I actually build.

However, if compute keeps going up in cost, hiring skilled people who know how to utilize it becomes more important. This might save the tech economy.

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malfist an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What does that mean? That copilot users can use 1/9th of their prior usage of Sonnet?

	▲	0xffff2 24 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Contrary to the other reply, I'm going to say yes, that's exactly what it means. For Github Copilot users with annual plans that are grandfathered in to per-prompt rather than per-token pricing, Github is increasing the cost of Sonnet from 1 "premium request" per Sonnet prompt to 9, thus meaning that those users will be able to submit 1/9th the number of prompts per month before incurring additional usage charges. For all practical purposes, this is a straightforward 9x increase in price.
	▲	moontear 32 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not quite. Premium models have different type of multipliers applied. The multiplier decides how many PRUs (premium request units or tokens) are used. These PRUs are replaced with different units with this announcement but the methodology remains the same: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/copilot-... Sometimes the multiplier increase is significant like for Claude Opus 4.6 from 3x to 27x (https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing...), meaning using that model will use up a lot more „tokens“ (whatever the new word for it is)

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drumttocs8 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's amazing how much I was able to build for $40/mo- something that would have taken a team of 100 twice the time just a few years ago.

Will always be grateful for the greed of trillion dollar corporations that subsidized me.

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dang 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

(This was originally posted to Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921248, but in a perhaps-futile effort to keep the discussions partitioned, Maxwell's demon will move it to the Copilot pricing thread.)