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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 1 points 7 hours ago

I mean, even then, they could increase the price per token, if they want to hand out fewer tokens for the price paid.

They could make this work like a prepaid SIM card, where you charge it with e.g. $10 and then you can use it until the $10 are used up.
Instead, they make it work like in-game currencies in scammy free-to-play games. Except that they didn't choose a confusing conversion rate, for some reason...