Something is hilariously off here: Why should I pay $10 and be forced to use it by the end of the month, while I can pay $10 and have it last as long as I want?

Their "API pricing" is exactly the same as that of providers: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing...

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everfrustrated 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm thinking the same. Downgrade to Pro and use OpenRouter (same price) for overage.

Seems a massive loss for Microsoft. Presumably there's a further rugpull to come.

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asdfasgasdgasdg 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Presumably there's a further rugpull to come.

How would that be? They are already charging as much as the underlying providers. They can hardly expect to have any customers if they are charging more.

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rurp 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Enterprise sales will be the answer. Microsoft will have some story that convinces an exec eight levels up the org chart from the normal users that this is an essential product they need to overpay for. Given their existing relationshipsand immense sales team they'll probably have success.

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Epa095 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That story is data governance. Corporate already have a data-agreement with MS, storing all their data there. Github copilot is covered by that, while a individual agreement with e.g. anthropic needs lawers involved.

	▲	mekael 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It’s precisely this, and, to be fair, it’s a rational approach given a Data Security Exhibit starts at 6 weeks and can hit 6 months to complete. That being said, I work with regulated data, so YMMV.
	▲	keriati1 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Can confirm, this is the situation.
	▲	formerly_proven 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Microsoft is simply the default answer for most large corporations. Getting access to some Microsoft subscription is very easy, because of the existing framework agreements, Microsoft providing any and all compliance slopuments needed and already being pre-cleared for corporate data etc. Meanwhile trying to use another provider (e.g. Anthropic) would be a one year endeavor, minimum.

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user34283 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

We also pay $300/month for Azure Desktop VMs.

We are paying for tens of thousands of those machines, although everyone knows they are stupidly expensive and incredibly slow.

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munk-a an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

They list the price 900% higher and give a 90% discount to enterprises who also use teams, outlook, office or even windows if they're desperate. Then that becomes a deal so good that enterprises can't afford not to take it!

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theanonymousone 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm already on Pro. Why should I keep it?

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rs38 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

e.g. if on an annual plan? 0x will be gone, but there are okay 1x and 0.3x models left. I am pretty much curious how the early may test invoicing will look like. current setup of tools etc. is way too chatty eats up 1+M token per PRU easily. not sure how much is cached.

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hununu 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

private repos

	▲	theanonymousone 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Can you elaborate please? I still clone my private repos and work on them using OpenRouter Credits and OpenCode (or Copilot itself: It supports OpenRouter BYOK). No?
	▲	piskov 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Copilot pro, not github pro

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gpm 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm wondering if they're basically saying they're going to give $10/month free API credits to students and open source maintainers and so on... while otherwise getting out of the consumer portion of this space.

	▲	redsaber 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		they're downsizing free github copilot pro for open source maintainers. At the very least, it looks like small open source projects got their free copilot pro cut off

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mdesq 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have to wonder if it's because of how many Enterprise customers they have who have standardized on Github Copilot and gotten it through the gauntlet of legal approvals etc.

	▲	pverheggen 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This rings true to me as someone who's worked at a few large corps like this. A price hike does not change things when there is a mandate to use MS products over other vendors.

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fooey 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

for my experience currently, I greatly prefer the VSCode Copilot extension experience over the Claude Extension

I think VSCode only supports copilot for "autocomplete" too

on top of that, you need GitHub Copilot for the PR reviewer functionality in GitHub

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cityofdelusion 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Huh, I find my copilot plugin to be so incredibly glitchy. My agents are always reporting that their shells are mangled that commands are truncated and all kinds of nonsense. Sometimes they spin up dev servers fine other times it just hangs waiting for a terminal response. So far I have found relying on the CLI from the model providers to be significantly more reliable.

I do like the integrations with the IDE however, they are convenient for rapidly reviewing changes. I just need their terminals to actually work!

	▲	evilsnoopi3 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I had this problem and it turns out it was my oh-my-posh command prompt customization. VS Code injects certain control characters into the output stream for agents to observe events and the theming runs after those mechanics are hooked up so it can interfere. Updating to the latest oh-my-posh fixed it for me. Here's the oh-my-posh GH issue[0] in case your problem is similar but not solvable with a simple package update. [0]: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/issues/7029

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ezfe 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Enterprise gets pooled credits and will like having everything go through one place so I think it still works.

	▲	mnahkies 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can pool credits through open router (afaik, I'm only using a single user account), but if you top-up $10 per user, per month, any unused credits will rollover. Tbh I think it still works, but only because the new allowance will likely get used very quickly within a billing cycle - I'm expecting this change to increase our orgs bill significantly based on how many API credits with open router I consume in a weekend using a single agent in a pairing style. The pooling will only be useful if you have a bunch of infrequent/low usage users that you still want to have licenses.

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J_Shelby_J 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there a way to use the autocomplete feature with an api?