r/GithubCopilot

https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2057854261699195173

DeepSeek just made the 1/4 discounted price for v4 Pro permanent.

Attribute	deepseek-v4-flash	deepseek-v4-pro
PRICING – 1M INPUT TOKENS (CACHE HIT)(2)	$0.0028	$0.003625 (75% off(3)) / $0.0145
PRICING – 1M INPUT TOKENS (CACHE MISS)	$0.14	$0.435 (75% off(3)) / $1.74
PRICING – 1M OUTPUT TOKENS	$0.28	$0.87 (75% off(3)) / $3.48

It increases the gap with the frontier (Sonnet/GPT 5.4) models to a 12 to 17x difference. And we are not even talking about the cache hit, where the difference is easily 60 to 80x cheaper. And DS models are very good at hitting those caches.

That is how you draw in customers Microsoft!

You can't use all of your subscription because of the rate limiting, every 3% of total usage you get limited for 5 hours but once you reach 20% you get limited for the week so even if you use it for the whole month you can only use 80% (4 weeks at 20%) of your total subscription.

Is there a class action lawsuit in the EU against Github Copilot? i would like to joint it because it wasn't like that when i subscribed to copilot and i didn't allowed them to change our contractual agreement.

This is absolutely not legal.

I've been running Copilot with my own OpenAI key for a while now, maybe more than a month. Daily usage with mostly GPT 5.4-mini (medium reasoning).

Of the 10$ I charged my profile with, I still have 5 left. 5.4-mini is cheap af as you may already know.

Today I got access to a Business account with 300 premium requests and immediately started using 5.4-mini. Well, I've already burned through 15% of the premium requests in a day.

Doesn't that translate to an overall better spending management with token-based billing? I understand MS may charge slightly more than going straight through OpenAI, but still I'd expect more mileage.

Thoughts?

Hi everyone!

I have a question: after June 1, when they start charging for tokens,

Can I pay for, say, the $10 GitHub Copilot subscription and use all BYOK models with OpenRouter? And avoid paying the fees that Copilot is going to start charging?

Because in my case, I already have a workflow with instructions, agents, skills, configurations, etc., and it would be quite time-consuming to change all my settings.

Does anyone know if there is a way to configure copilot to stop making so many assumptions and things in its loops/agent calls?

Many times it just starts going into its own endless loop of logic and going in circles. I'd like it to just chill and give me an answer sometimes.

https://preview.redd.it/wkm5to788q2h1.png?width=599&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e3f2478312070db87722149ad597577434aa2be

Copilot is truly falling off

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I cannot get these 'additional api' models to show in the new agents window. Still only shows default free models. Im on a free plan. I can get it to work using chat sidebar only, shows 'other models'...but i cannot get this into the agents window.

added api keys to both, agents window cmd pallete :config language models, shows the additional api models...openrouter. But cannot see them in the chat access..

can someone confirm this is a feature i can use?

With Github Copilot, we are not lucky enough to have a very cost efficient & performant model like Composer 2.5.

But what are our options ?

If we look at that cost / efficiency diagram, I believe we can narrow our options to 4 options depending on the intelligence we want.

Something for sure is that it is better to forget Claude models as they are too expensive.

- Gemini 3 flash

- GPT 5.5 low

- GPT 5.5 medium

- Gemini 3.1 pro

Let's hope we can have more cost efficient models in the future.

https://preview.redd.it/3u45fnt15p2h1.png?width=1188&format=png&auto=webp&s=7df5ff6f1fb0ae2b559404db9b5e383f40e2a98f

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GHCopilot multipliers for paid plans

Quote: Each model has a premium request multiplier, based on its complexity and resource usage. If you are on a paid Copilot plan, your premium request allowance is deducted according to this multiplier.

https://preview.redd.it/l5qidtqixn2h1.png?width=1906&format=png&auto=webp&s=8513438de45b201835a1cda940c8f8ee6b466f06

Cost of building and deploying AI models in Agent Platform

Quote: Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers near-Pro intelligence and parallel agentic execution at standard Flash-tier speed and cost.

Rant: I want to talk about the GHCopilot model multipliers and what this means for subscribers regardless of plan/tier. The above is a little context so the tech bros do not hallucinate and start AI slop posting comments based on assumptions and misinformation.

This is just the latest model example for illustrating the complexity and tradeoffs of choosing a provider. Looking at the recent trends of model multipliers made me think beyond the reasoning and explanation given to justify the said multipliers.

I just simply could not digest the numbers slapped on the newer models and the bigger picture of why and how such things get passed on to end users is beyond me. Does someone wake up and decide to hold a board meeting to then decide the random multiplier based on the name of the model or do they think the end users are just naive and not understand the optics of cost of inference vs value?

I'm just curious, how many of you think this is the right thing to do? I mean if this is the future, I might as well just start charging my clients with the same multipliers, mimic the reasoning quotes and have them stop worrying about why and how.

Would this work? It's a great business model, I need a favour from all the other devs to do the same to their clients too. This way, they do not have anywhere else left to go except pay for what we offer at our own pricing if they choose to have us use AI for faster shipping over traditional coding. After all, AI is for everyone, right? Cheers! 🥂

Check the link below :)

https://medium.com/@guidorusso95/github-copilot-changed-pricing-so-i-rebuilt-my-entire-ai-coding-stack-with-chinese-models-8620172ea868

Can't be asked to pay 500$ a month for that...
Tried OpenCode Go for a bit, but quality is not comparable to GPT 5.5 / Opus
OpenRouter even with flexible service tier would still be in the hundreds.

Any good alternatives out there 😃
So far only Codex Pro / Claude Max would make sense, but still pricey

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Hello,

just a sanity check.

I have been using GH Copilot for mainly:

- consultation chat in IT and general

- IT troubleshooting

- maintaining documentation (currently homelab, but company planned)

- writing automation scripts (ansible, powershell)

- maintaining IaC

No real programming/coding, no inline. I don't write the scripts, AI does, I understand them and use them. Most changes are done via prompting. I need a relatively large context for AI to be able to hold my git repo in the context, when for instance doing a documentation check over everything (doing this every now and then).

For how I understand it, I have pure token usage.

Copilot was great until now. From 1. June, I believe the pricing is going to be the same as Anthropic Claude Console, with two distinct advantages with Claude Console:

- with Claude Console, I pay per usage (and that can quickly leverage towards positive, as there are months where I use AI very little, like vacation months or just not doing much)

- larger context window, I believe Claude has the ability to context my whole repo, while Copilot does not

Why I am asking: I find the Copilot usage, especially when it comes to corrections, way user friendlier. While both Cline + Anthropic and Copilot fullfill this, Cline actually does it one step at a time, which takes a long time if there are many corrections, while the Copilot does it much quicker. Not sure whether that is a quality feature, but it makes corrections by "OK"-ing way simpler.

So, what is your take on this?

Thanks

Anyone else have this experience with their "generous refund" but intimidating pressure campaign to keep people on by threatening to not allow re-subscription if they cancel, then getting charged the next day anyway?? Scam tactics all around w Github lately.