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...
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.
> 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.
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.
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.
Exactly this. I can't count the number of enterprises with their whole stack inside of Microsoft's ecosystem.
Many of these enterprises are grid-locked with the IT department and AI usage.
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.
But if the org already has an agreement with Anthropic (and many do) then why pay GitHub…
Plus if you're in government you have procurement to deal with. You already have an Enterprise deal with Microsoft so you don't have to go through any of that rigmarole.
Can confirm, this is the situation.
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.
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.
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!
I'm already on Pro. Why should I keep it?
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.
I had some 3x request that I did the math for fun on long running task, and at API price it would have been ~$260 that the in/out and cache. All that for $0.12.
Only reason to keep it is if you like their UX and auto-complete. Everything else is on pay per use and if you don't use all of it (good luck with the 5 hour and week caps) you have just paid more for the auto-complete
The deal is really pretty much garbage now and I believe that is the intent.
I use auto-complete mostly, so I'm somewhat relieved. When I do need to use the agent, I don't think I will use all of the tokens.
$10 a month for auto-complete on a good UX is good value IMHO.
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private repos
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?
Copilot pro, not github pro
Also you can have private repos on GitHub Free.
OpenRouter charges a 5% (?) fee for buying credits.
Yeah, but you get the benefit of using any model of your choice.
A very reasonable and fair markup that is clear and well articulated and not changing (at least so far) on a whim.
I think 5% is pretty solid, I am an OpenRouter user myself. Where I got screwed was enabling search on my requests, that jumped up my consumption a lot!
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.
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.
That is exactly where I am.
We're putting other providers through the gauntlet. An M4 Studio or two running the latest Qwen3 or whatever counts for state of the art in open models is also looking a little more viable all the time.
They can be super complementary! Open weight models can be your everyday standard goto, and frontier models for the harder and bigger tasks.
Having some open weight deployment or vendor is also a good thing, because you may have domain specific tasks where you can get better results on domain specific problems with a quick finetune.
Unsloth makes it particularly easy. Open weight LLMs are incredibly powerful building blocks.
Bingo. Ghcp is the only allowed llm solution at our big well known semiconductor corp. It'll take years to get approval for anything else. We're stuck with it and will pay whatever price we have to.
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.
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
I was kinda of disappointed when that happened earlier this month, but not as much now after seeing this change. My primary use had been trying out some of the newer Anthropic and OpenAI models, which probably would have burned through $10 worth of credits rather quickly given their new pricing.
I am a bit confused by the separation between VSCode and Copilot. If I cancel my Pro+ subscription, can I still use Copilot with my own OpenRouter key?
is $10 Pro monthly subscription a pre-requisite before i can purchase $10 in API credits?
PS: i would have loved if I can directly buy $10 in credits and be free to spend it as quickly or as leisurly as I want -- without any monthly expiry or fixed recurring payments
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
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!
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
Ive also had huge problems with copilot and terminals, mostly due to corporate antivirus which makes it impossible to install clink for example. So the Shell integration never really worked. It has been fixed for a couple of months though now, and its working, maybe not great but at least very good.
The only sad thing is trying to use tools in a VS developer prompt (and how could this not have been fixed ages ago, its literall YOUR OWN flagship product). It knows how to launch the .cmd for it, but thats incredibly slow for single commands. Would be nice if I could tell it to just use an open terminal.
I have the same problem with zsh + powerlevel10k
but surely the issue is on VS Code side, to do things in a way that work with people's shells as they are
other agent harnesses don't have the same problems with my shell
You can use Copilot extension with OpenRouter (among others).
And yes, I need to find a solution for autocomplete. It used to be available in free tier of Copilot. Not sure anymore.
Enterprise gets pooled credits and will like having everything go through one place so I think it still works.
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.
Which is almost guaranteed to be the case for a large org, considering everyone will want auto complete and PR reviews, but on average most will not be making a ton of agent use
Is there a way to use the autocomplete feature with an api?
No but autocomplete is not part of this billing change
Is that autocomplete better than IntelliJ own plus their local only LLM completion?
I uninstalled copilot plugin because it was eating memory and its completions where about 60% good and the rest was bad.
After switching back to IntelliJ I see just positives.
kilocode allows you to keep your credits at the end of the month, and if you run out, give you an extra 50% I think.
(No affiliation, they're my next stop when my trial of copilot runs out).