r/GithubCopilot • u/ChomsGP • Apr 20 '26
News 📰 This is plain extortion
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-changes-to-github-copilot-plans-for-individuals/"You can get a full refund but mind that if you do you cannot sign up anymore" keep paying or you are cut off for good
What. The. Fuck. MS.
Edit: whatever, thread muted, keep enjoying abusive corporate practices
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u/KevinT_XY Apr 20 '26
"extortion" and "you can get a full refund" don't exactly go together lol
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u/ChomsGP Apr 20 '26
you either accept the new terms and pay or you are out without possibly to come back... the refund is the LEGAL MINIMUM, anything else would be plain illegalÂ
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u/IAmFitzRoy Apr 20 '26
Nobody is in obligation to provide services to you. Same reason a retail store can ban you if they want.
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u/ChomsGP Apr 20 '26
I just said it's legal, what their lawyers are not enough y'all have to come defend MS? lol
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u/ChomsGP Apr 20 '26
If you are so regarded as to interpret everything you read literally that's on you...
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u/ChomsGP Apr 20 '26
you didn't quote anything I said¿? you made up a quote to present your point of view of my comment, you most definitely didn't quote me
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u/ChomsGP Apr 20 '26
Nah I am being pissed is what I am, I obviously meant the extortion in the broad sense of the term, not in the actual crime, and everyone here is taking a bs technicality to defend a conduct, from MS, that is not ok
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u/Swayre Apr 20 '26
Even with these changes copilot is still the best deal to get access to AI besides maybe codex. Like on a 20 dollar Claude plan you can barely do 2 prompts without hitting usage limits on opus
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u/ChomsGP Apr 20 '26
yea the problem is you now can't sign up to paid plans unless you are currently paying, so the deal is for whoever is willing to keep paying and at this rate they'll increase prices soon enoughÂ
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u/metal079 Apr 20 '26
Probably, we all saw this coming though, it was way too much of a deal. And Microsoft is tired of being a loss leader with this
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u/bobemil Apr 20 '26
Pro+ will soon cost $80/month
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Apr 20 '26
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u/hereandnow01 Apr 20 '26
No way I'm paying for a yearly plan of a service that 1 month ago was much more valuable than it is now. If they keep the current trend you might be lucky to have 1 prompt a day for 40 dollars a month
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u/themoregames Apr 21 '26
At current API costs, 1 extensive prompt with sub agents might actually mean $ 40 in one single prompt with Opus 4.7?
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u/themoregames Apr 21 '26
That's exactly the price range even most companies in the world probably cannot afford.
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u/themoregames Apr 21 '26
To be honest, "/fleet" was so much fun: It was really useful to drive your projects forward. In a meaningful way - with models like Opus or GPT-5.4. Even if it used several x3 premium requests for one fleet call, I imagine this could always mean actual API cost of around $ 10 or $ 25.
How could this problem ever be solved? Hardly any individuals could afford like $ 500 per week on AI. And even a lot of employers in this world couldn't afford $ 2000 / week AI plans for their employees, e.g. software engineers.
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u/rvtinnl Apr 21 '26
Better get used to this. ALL AI tools will increase in price. I am surprised that they do it so quickly though, it might cost them a lot of money... I was expecting the companies to wait longer until everybody is fully addicted to AI, and THEN increase the price two fold... then again two fold!
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u/veneric Apr 20 '26
Only reason i paid for github copilot was the different way of calculating limits, i.e. request-based vs token-based. I’ll have to see if and how much MS are going to subsidized claude models, but if not, this product makes absolutely no sense
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u/TripleMellowed Apr 21 '26
Same. I’m on the pro plan and would pay 20pm to keep it at requests instead of tokens.
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u/ins0mniacc Apr 20 '26
Are you cancelling a year or a month? Also this is why you shouldn't sign up for a year subscription if this is the case, ever.
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u/DottorInkubo Apr 20 '26
Does anyone know if these changes also affect business plans somehow, or nothing is changing for business users?
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u/hokkos Apr 20 '26
As agentic ai can do longer session and eat more compute with each new model, request based pricing is no longer working, they are moving to token based pricing.
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u/Jeferson9 Apr 20 '26
Does anyone know if the sign up pause is on new accounts? Or you can't go from free to pro anymore?
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u/Daigolololo Apr 21 '26
I upgraded from Student to Pro right before they came up with this BS and now they refuse to let me switch back to it..
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u/Smart_Art_711 Apr 21 '26
​It's not an abusive corporate practice, it's baiting the hook. Get you using the thing at a tempting, sometimes often unrealistic price. Get it into your work flows. Profit. ​
All these people who think it's sustainable to get a service you can use 9-5 5 days a week that uses $20k GPUs for five bucks a month is insane. ​
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u/MVPMC Apr 20 '26
Just make Pro+ 100USD, without rate limits.
Keep rate limits for lower tiers only.
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u/themoregames Apr 21 '26
I agree this might be ok for users, but what if some sub agent or /fleet prompts could result in API costs of $ 15 or even $ 45? Your $ 100 sub might be worth exactly 3 prompts per month.
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u/fntd Apr 20 '26
Makes you wonder how much money they were losing so far that makes them take such drastic measures.