Copilot Agent has getting very expensive

[davideberli]

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I really like the Copilot Agent — it’s a great boost to productivity. It’s especially helpful when working on issues or doing code reviews. While it’s not perfect, it’s very effective.

However, since the pricing update, the agent has become quite expensive. The main issue lies with the premium request limits. There are some free premium requests included: 300 with the Pro plan, 1,500 with Pro+, and 1,000 with the Enterprise plan — but these get used up very quickly.

We primarily use the agent for working on issues. An average session costs us around 70 premium requests:

For normal work on a mid-sized project, we need around 300–500 requests per day and developer for issue handling and code reviews. That adds up to about 8,000 premium requests per month — roughly $320 per developer per month.

Are there any plans to revise the pricing model again?

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[Theaxiom]

@davideberli I am experiencing the exact same issue, especially since I am a solo-founder with no current backing or income! My productivity has plummeted since the pricing increase and some of my tasks even cost $25 because Copilot Agent does not one-shot, I have to review its work, send it back to work more and next thing I know I have used 600+ premium requests for a single task in less than a few hours! The pricing on this is exorbitant, especially knowing that Microsoft runs Copilot and OpenAI/ChatGPT on their own hardware!

This doesn't even include that fact that Copilot Agent runs on GitHub Actions and consumes GitHub actions time which I also have to pay for!

[3nprob]

Are there any plans to revise the pricing model again?

Waging that yes, but not the way you hope. Copilot Agent is still likely in growth-and-market-capture-mode and running subsidized. If upcoming price increases would be a problem it's probably a good idea to not commit the single-vendor-lockin deeper into organization processes until you've identified and validated alternative(s).

[JranZu]

GitHub Copilot is busted. I had a session that lasted approximately 35 minutes and generated 221 requests. I was able to achieve the same result with the VS Agent, using only six requests. The results were the same from both. VS also got it done in less time.

I'm reverting to the VS agent until they resolve the issue with the GitHub Agent.

[Theaxiom]

Sounds about right. I have had to switch most of my work to Cursor since Cursor is only $20/mo. and I can do SO MUCH more with that $20 instead of paying $25+ for a single task from Copilot Agent!

[Theaxiom]

They fixed it, now it only costs 1 premium request per prompt, multiplied by the model!

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/copilot-billing/understanding-and-managing-requests-in-copilot

[galeotti-cpu]

And what about the already spendt budget? how can we get a refund?
I've busted my monthly budget in less than 2 days with new pricing, this is shame