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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (github.blog)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 109 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

Users on annual Pro or Pro+ plans will remain on their existing plan with premium request-based pricing until their plan expires, however, model multipliers will increase on June 1 (see table).

holy shit, 9x the previous cost. which was already not great. I was on the fence about cancelling it, but thanks for making up my mind, MS

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's been their business model for a while now. "Here's something you also didn't ask for"

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Which is a crime, by the way, when you sell it together with a product you hold a monopoly for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but on the other hand look at the ballroom they've donated to (for completely non-corrupt reasons).

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