GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing tonight. Users on a $40 plan are getting estimates as high as $30k.
Some comments on their subreddit:
No more unlimited PRU vibes — every model call has a price tag starting > tomorrow. Happy Tokenization Day 🎉
.No, now it’s time to just cancel the subscription no more Copilot for >me.
.StackOverflow... I am coming home
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Datacenter Costs
So, they were quietly burning billions to offer the service up till now. Tons of expensive Nvidia chips and huge amount of energy to power them. It was unsustainable to begin with.
What do you think, will Claude and other AI companies follow the suit?
AI vs Junior Software Engineers
The funny thing is there were AI led massive layoffs. Essentially, replacing devs with pro subscriptions. Now these subscriptions might just cost as much as the devs salaries.
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Alternatives: Some users have switched their model to DeepSeek (in Co-pilot extension). A fairly cheap pro subscription with good results