~~GitHub~~ Microsoft just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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Not sure if you don't realize this but those are the same company.
They switched from heavily subsidizing it, to subsidizing it less. That's going to happen with the other providers, too.
yes but continue to use the github brand because we need to remind folks that github blows
microsoft cant win a token pricing war.
comrades, time to jump on the deepseek bandwagon :D
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I'm not sure why anyone is surprised. The new pricing is closer to what it actually costs to provide the service.
They can't keep subsidizing AI forever. The same thing is going to happen to other providers too.
I think a lot of people thought that they were going to pay a flat monthly fee forever. This is just the beginning.
I've been warning anyone who will listen that the metered token-based rates are the future for this industry. I've had coworkers dismiss my warnings, and now here we are. It's gonna be a shit show once anthropic eventually switches over to token-based billing for services like Claude Code.
There might continue to be flat monthly fees with some providers, but I can imagine the prices growing to at least 10x the current prices. At the moment, a $200/month plan with Anthropic or OpenAI lets you use thousands of dollars worth of tokens per month (and even that price might currently be subsidized) which isn't sustainable.
Watching github news from my codeberg safe place 😎🍿🍺
Just trying to squeeze it out before the pop.
I guess they are starting to feel the strain of hemorrhaging billions of dollars for data centers.
and neglecting most of its other services. big mistake was having OPENAI attached at the hip with MS.
They're figuring if AI is not deeply embeded and people totally addicted to using it by now it's not ever going to happen, so it's time to let the trap shut and see what they caught.
And yet stock prices SOAR!
The market is insane. The valuations for stocks connected in any way to "AI" have no connection to reality whatsoever.
It never has had any connection to reality. It's always been at the whims of ignorant rich fucks that own most of the stock.
You just described the entire stock market since the dawn of currency.
AI is just the newest buzzword.
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MS acts like the bubble already popped.
Maybe it did for them!
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Weird, I'm not having this problem.
Good.
The faster slop code stops, the more reliable our software will get.
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Now suddenly everyone will care how horrible it is when you have to pay for said garage.
Garbage
Cybertruck parking only
Just wait until OpenAI and Anthropic get their IPO and the front slowly falls off. A recession will happen shortly thereafter.
That’s why they build the data centers outside of the environment.
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me feeling pimp since ive always hosted my own runners
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Lol, sucks to suck.