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GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day (www.techspot.com)
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[–] dan@upvote.au 13 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

different counts of processing, cache etc

Don't all the providers do this, though? Anthropic/Claude has different pricing based on if you're caching for five mins vs one hour (which are the only two options for cache TTL). https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Copilot was uniquely awful at this, because up to until literally days before the switch to usage based billing there was no way for people to track token usage, despite repeated calls from the community.

Microsoft only added a billing "projection" feature on the admin page that was meant to download a spreadsheet (which straight up didn't work for most people) less than a week before the new billing structure.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Ahh, that's not great. I've only ever used it for free since I get the $10/month plan for free as an open-source maintainer (https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-on-github/set-up-copilot/enable-copilot/set-up-for-teachers-and-os-maintainers) so I've never had to deal with the billing side.

The amount of value they used to provide with the $10 plan felt too good to be true.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Well, the point here is the deception. So, if you can find a similar link from the past from Microsoft…