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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (github.blog)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I love how corpos can just change the rules at will.

Edit: New prices:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing

And if you look at the old pricing structure, some of the models are increasing by 27x

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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The almost endless opus usage couldn't last to be fair. I assume those costs are closer to the real cost to provide the service, ouch!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I assume those costs are closer to the real cost to provide the service, ouch!

    Not even close. Most AI companies are making something like 95% loss according to an article here a bit ago. So if you're an AI provider, you need to multiply prices by 25 before you even begin to eat into your insane levels of debt.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    On the potentially bright side maybe this will make people think harder about which model to use for which task. You don't need to feed your entire code base into Opus when a Gemini Flash sub-agent can do a perfectly fine job running grep and compiling a summary for the main agent.

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