{"id":616236,"date":"2026-06-02T01:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616236\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:47:12","slug":"ai-costs-how-much-github-copilot-users-react-to-new-usage-based-pricing-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616236\/","title":{"rendered":"AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEven though I was super cautious on the first day, trying it out with a limited number of uses, it still consumed 840 credits,\u201d one user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fhiraki\/status\/2061479170451087497\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> of testing Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Copilot today. \u201cI haven\u2019t even done any really complex work yet,\u201d another user complained after <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/stebets\/status\/2061511719306858702\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> usage representing 21 percent of their monthly Pro Copilot subscription\u2019s credit allotment in a single day. \u201cI have a feeling I\u2019ll be going somewhere else pretty soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"cursor-zoom-in\" data-pswp-width=\"1668\" data-pswp-height=\"943\" data-cropped=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HJumd-3bYAA80Zf.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-pswp-><br \/>\n              <img width=\"1668\" height=\"943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HJumd-3bYAA80Zf.jpg\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>              Using all 8,000 of your org\u2019s monthly AI credits in a single day is\u2026 probably not sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>      Using all 8,000 of your org\u2019s monthly AI credits in a single day is\u2026 probably not sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>                      <a class=\"caption-credit-link text-gray-400 no-underline hover:text-gray-500\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gxjo_dev\/status\/2061424291586150751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>          gxjo \/ X<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid the pricing change, plenty of GitHub\u00a0Copilot 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. Coder Henri Kinnunen <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hequmania\/status\/2061498377817211176\" rel=\"nofollow\">writes<\/a> that they only burned 161 credits in a \u201cproductive day\u201d of using GPT 5.3-Codex through Copilot, thanks to limiting themselves to \u201cvery focused and deliberate changes with AI.\u201d Over on Bluesky, coder Neil Hewitt <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/neilhewitt.bsky.social\/post\/3mnai3gnhos2j\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wisely noted<\/a> that continuing a three-day-old chat session on Copilot probably isn\u2019t as wise now, since it means sending \u201cthe entire chat history as context every time\u2026 hey, input tokens use credits\u2026 it\u2019s not rocket science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some Copilot users are jumping ship for other services with more generous usage limits, that kind of subsidized customer acquisition may soon give way to Copilot-style usage-based pricing across the industry. If that happens, LLMs that are more efficient with their tokens may win the economic battle; on Reddit, one user is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GithubCopilot\/comments\/1ttz5wp\/deepseek_v4_flash_is_capable\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already discussing<\/a> how they\u2019ve integrated Deepseek into their GitHub\u00a0VSCode environment at a cost of only \u201cabout 7 cents for 15 million tokens.\u201d While you might say \u201cyou get what you pay for,\u201d some AI users are now contemplating a world where they also have to pay for what they get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEven though I was super cautious on the first day, trying it out with a limited number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}