Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
Article
TL;DR: GitHub killed flat-rate Opus access mid-cycle; 4.7 costs 7.5x credits, exposing AI subscription math.
Key Takeaways
- Opus 4.7 costs 7.5x credits vs 3x for 4.6; Pro+ now $39/mo vs $10 Pro
- Change made mid-billing cycle with zero notice; annual subscribers can’t easily get refunds
- Signal: flat-rate subscriptions can’t cover agentic usage — industry-wide repricing coming
Discussion
- Community reads this as proof agentic AI workloads break flat subscription economics permanently
- Majority canceling for Claude Pro, direct API, or OpenCode — Microsoft failed to retain them
- No notice mid-cycle treated as breach of trust, not just unwelcome pricing change
Top comments:
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[Incipient]: True cost of AI was massively subsidized to drive adoption — now the bill arrives
The cost of AI has really been masked HUGELY to drive adoption. The true cost is likely to be unsustainable for the big complex tasks (agents running for hours+) that companies have been pushing.
- [hx8]: Microsoft adds near-zero value over buying from Anthropic or OpenAI directly
- [benwills]: 30 years online, never seen an industry this bad — zero refund path for annual subscribers
- [alexandra_au]: Both Microsoft and Anthropic lack compute — enshittification is coming for everyone