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GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day (www.techspot.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure why anyone is surprised. The new pricing is closer to what it actually costs to provide the service.

They can't keep subsidizing AI forever. The same thing is going to happen to other providers too.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I think a lot of people thought that they were going to pay a flat monthly fee forever. This is just the beginning.

    I've been warning anyone who will listen that the metered token-based rates are the future for this industry. I've had coworkers dismiss my warnings, and now here we are. It's gonna be a shit show once anthropic eventually switches over to token-based billing for services like Claude Code.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    There might continue to be flat monthly fees with some providers, but I can imagine the prices growing to at least 10x the current prices. At the moment, a $200/month plan with Anthropic or OpenAI lets you use thousands of dollars worth of tokens per month (and even that price might currently be subsidized) which isn't sustainable.

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