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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (github.blog)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I imagine that they did try. But it's not just the intentionally misleading announcement post, they also have 5(?) different subscription tiers, which get different changes from this. And one of the subscription tiers is actually called "Pro+", so that does not mean "Pro and more expensive tiers" like I wondered. And they have this ridiculous intermediate currency to make things even more confusing.

Their offering itself is overly complex and confusing...

[–] ID10T@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The whole “AI Credit” thing did strike me as odd to even introduce. They mention a few times that 1 AI Credit = $0.01, but then do the whole pricing table in $/1M tokens.

The only place I saw them even use “AI Credits” as a unit was to say the $10/month plan includes 1000 AI Credits. Why even introduce a whole new unit if you only use it to say your $10 monthly plan includes $10 of usage?

I suspect the answer is so that they can later muddy the waters by changing the number of included credits to be less than you’re paying monthly without directly saying “you’re now paying $20/month for $10 of usage”

I guess it is coming from the same people who came up with the world’s most inscrutable billing scheme for compute…