Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
Article
TL;DR
GitHub removes Opus 4.6 from Copilot Pro mid-cycle; Opus 4.7 now costs 7.5x premium credits.
Key Takeaways
- Per-request pricing model was unsustainable; a few agentic sessions exceeded monthly plan cost
- Opus 4.7 at 7.5x multiplier effectively doubles the real price of Opus access
- New signups paused signals Microsoft’s compute supply is constrained, not just pricing
Discussion
Top comments:
- [benwills]: Mid-cycle removal with no refund path; worst practices in 30 years online
- [shmolyneaux]: 300 premium requests let Opus do 30-min multi-subagent work; clearly unsustainable
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[Incipient]: True cost of agentic AI has been massively subsidized to drive adoption
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.